By Nqobile Dludla

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s Democratic Alliance said on Saturday former leader Helen Zille would be its next candidate for mayor of Johannesburg, as the party seeks to win back control of the country’s biggest city in next year’s local government election.

The 74-year-old was widely regarded as the main architect of the party’s political strategy in last year’s national election, in which the ruling African National Congress lost its majority for the first time, forcing it to share power with second-placed DA and a host of smaller parties.

With Zille, the DA has chosen a political heavyweight to try to win back South Africa’s commercial capital after a series of mayors in the past decade or so either quit, were forced out or – in the case of three of them –

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