Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille was elected as the Western Cape premier on Wednesday. Her party beat the reigning national party, the ANC in last month's general election.Zille, the former mayor of Cape Town, will lead a 22-member DA team in the 42-seat legislature. She and provincial leader Theuns Botha were sworn in in the Cape Town Chambers yesterday. Both leaders asked to take the religious oath, rather then a non-religious affirmation.
If the Western Cape were it's own country, I'd move back in a heartbeat. It is the province with the best economy, the best infrastructure, the least fraud by it's administrators, and offering the best quality of life. It is also the one province in South Africa that you can recommend to your foreign friends to visit with a clear conscience: both because it is safer then the rest of SA, and because it is a place of stunning natural beauty.
I'll wait and see before forming any worse impressions of Jacob Zuma, South Africa's new president. Maybe he rises from the African tribal culture, does not employ favoritism and nepotism, works to improve the lives of all South Africans, and not just to cement his own position as chief. Time will tell.
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