Title: Not Without a Fight
Subtitle: The Autobiography
Authors: Helen Zille
Genre: Autobiography
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa (Zebra Press)
Cape Town, South Africa 2015
ISBN 9781776090426 / ISBN 978-1-77609-042-6
Softcover, 15 x 23 cm, 544 pages, numerous photographs
Politics is about power: how it is won, used, manipulated, subverted, held to account, lost and regained. Unsurprisingly, it attracts extremes, from idealists who want to make the world a better place, to the unprincipled who are in it for their own selfish ends. A country's prospects depend on how it is governed. In a democracy, 'the people' make that choice. Not Without a Fight: The Autobiography of Helen Zille is dedicated to the new generation of politicians who have the guts, the integrity, and staying power for South Africa to succeed. You need to know: it won't happen without a fight. Helen Zille's autobiography tells the story of two main strands of her life: her personal and political journey. There is a third strand required to complete the picture, which she hopes will provide the content of another book. The third strand is the story of how she, together with many others, addressed the challenge of building capable state institutions at local and provincial level, to address South Africa's major challenges.
Preface
Roots
It Takes a Village
Hunger Strikes
Matters of the Heart
'The Maree Affair'
Birth Pains and Death Throes
A Political Education
Yes, Minister
The Battle for the Soul of the DA
Hamba Kwa Langa
An Unlikely Coalition
'We Can, We Must, and We Will'
Of Crosstitutes and Criminals
Zillegate
Moral Equivalence
Damned If You Do
Varying Shades of Bad
The Plane Crash
A Deluded Agenda
Setting the Record Straight
The End of Two Eras
The Problem with Race Politics
The Struggle for Economic Freedom
Acknowledgements
Abreviations
Index