Is Helen Zille going to run for Joburg Mayor? We interview Tshidi Madia...

Ray White (in for 702's Bongani Bingwa) is joined by EWN Associate Political Editor Tshidi Madia.

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Democratic Alliance (DA) Chairperson of the Federal Council Helen Zille confirmed this week that she was approached and is willing to run for Joburg Mayor in the local government elections.

It's an offer she says she's seriously considering.

But Madia admits she's not taking the former DA leader too seriously.

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"I think she's playing games. She leaves many of the people in her party quite jittery."

- Tshidi Madia, Associate Political Editor - EWN

If Zille is serious, says Madia, it says a lot about the DA leadership.

"It's an indictment on the leadership having someone like Helen Zille, at the age of 74, wanting to run. It suggests that there's no leadership, there's no potential, and there's no one capable."

- Tshidi Madia, Associate Political Editor - EWN

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Serious or not, there has been some support from South Africans for Zille to run, with many believing she's the right person to sort out Johannesburg and return it to its 'glory days'.

"These people forget that since 2016 the DA has had a hand in running all of Gauteng's major metros... and if you look at the DA in Tshwane, there have been corruption allegations that saw successive DA mayors losing their positions."

- Tshidi Madia, Associate Political Editor - EWN

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