When I heard Herman Mashaba resigned from the DA attributing Helen Zille's election as FedEx chair and the conservative faction behind her (the majority of DA members that voted for Zille after her sudden candidature), I said another resignation, especially by a senior black member, would put the nail in their coffin of any hope they had to still be an effective party and opposition, particular for black votes that ironically Zille's win scuttled. (Talking about confused, as eNCA's headline on Mashaba's resignation said, 'shooting themselves in the foot'.) Over the past couple of days I said Zille's win was a huge mistake, that her alleged "strategic and organisational" brilliance was overstated, that she made the blunders that led to DA where it's now and she shouldn't be there (check my comments). I said her running was opportunistic, egotistical (with Zuma and Malema she has the biggest ego of all local politicians) and an indication ...