Helen Zille’s involvement in politics is rooted in South Africa’s apartheid era, when she worked as a journalist for the Rand Daily Mail from 1974 to 1982 and became a prominent critic of apartheid. In the 1980s and 1990s, Zille was involved with organizations such as the Black Sash civil rights group. During the early 1990s, as apartheid policies were being dismantled, she served as a technical adviser to the Democratic Party (DP; from 2000, the Democratic Alliance). Zille became an active member of the DP in 1995 and was elected to the Western Cape parliament in 1999.
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