On today’s acceptance speech in Soweto Eyethu Mall, the DA council chairperson Helen Zille is announced to be the DA’s mayoral candidate for the City of Johannesburg, announced on the 20th September 2025.” I acknowledge with respect all the other candidates who gave stiff competition for this honour”. Zille grow up in the city of Johannesburg , she stands for the people and criticize the bad government placed on good people.” But the good news is that in a democracy the people have more power than their government , if they will only use it. They can vote for change”

” They can evict a bad government and demand better . The greatest risk facing Joburg is that her people resign themselves to the path of failure, and give up on her promise”. And she promised that the DA would not give up “We can still change course. There is a better way”
Zille quoted president Cyril Ramaphosa’s words ” Those municipalities that do best are not ANC controlled … they are often DA controlled municipalities. We need to ask ourselves, what is it that they are doing that is better than what we are doing?” referring to the President’s statements at the ANC’s roll call for councillors event in Soweto on Monday.
Gauteng DA leader Solly Msimanga said the party’s polling was useful for the province’s metros . He was indeed confident and he confirmed that the DA is ahead of the ANC in the metros of Tshwane, Ekurhuleni and Johannesburg.