Talk:Helen Zille

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: I gave this article a B-class rating, because I believe that at the moment the article: properly explains the topic provides a significant measure of information regarding the topic, this being relevant and can satisfy most users no real NPOV violations However, it does still require some work: Many other image More information -- gaps need filling -- Chris Lester talk 17:02, 25 March 2007 (UTC) (edit)

I understand that Helen Zille was the journalist who revealed the death of Steve Biko at the hands of the security police. If that's true, it is worthy of mention in this article.165.146.189.82 13:11, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Not that I know of, or that a cursory google search reveals. I'll look around a bit more, though. dewet|✉ 13:44, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

...and just as I hit submit, I find the link. Here's an IOL story about her, with the following paragraph:

Zille, a former journalist who was praised by her peers for her role in exposing the brutalities that led to the death in detention of the Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko, is the national spokesperson for the Democratic Alliance.

So I guess that's enough of a cite, no? dewet|✉ 13:51, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

That's as much as I heard (which was on Cape Talk Radio). It was a comment made in response to a listener who was making the jump from Zille being white, and DA, to the "obvious" fact that she would then be anti-black.192.96.88.227 12:09, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Multilingualism.

Under 'Early Life and Career', it says "Zille is also able to speak Xhosa." And that's the sum total of her linguistic capacities, apparently... In actual fact, she is perfectly fluent in at least FOUR languages: English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and German. Perhaps the article should reflect this. FlyBang 17:29, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Fine but it earns a cite tag. Zain Ebrahim (talk) 15:00, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Her grand uncle is ...

Heinrich Zille (so it is said in the german articles about both Heinrich and Helen Zille and i read this in german newspapers too). --78.48.192.223 18:05, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Size of image

It seems a little too large, could it be rescaled down again. Teatreez (talk) 19:20, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

yeah the size is a lot too large and big and huge. it is very inorhodox with other articles and should be scaled down to a more reasonalbe size like the other articles on prominient political figures such as Franklin Roosevelt Josef STalin and Calvin Coolidge.Smith Jones (talk) 20:42, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Better now? - htonl (talk) 19:13, 29 March 2008 (UTC)