Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille arrives for President Jacob Zuma's Sate of the Nation address at the opening session pf Parliament in Cape Town, February 12, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The former head of South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party and ex-premier of the Western Cape province, Helen Zille, will join think tank the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), the group said on Sunday.
Zille, 68, led the centre-right DA between 2007 and 2015, but she has recently fallen out with the party's leadership, mainly over differing stances on affirmative action and other economic policies.
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