The Big Read: A new leader, a new vision

It was time for Helen Zille to go. Now the question that looms large over the DA is this: What now and led by whom? How to move from the 22% that it achieved in last May's elections to a higher take of the electoral haul? For now, however, we will be obsessed with diagnosis of the reign of Zille. Over the past two years the DA leader has made some serious strategic and tactical mistakes (remember the disastrous Agang SA non-merger?).