DA leader Mmusi Maimane wants Helen Zille to quit as Western Cape premier but the former Cape Town mayor will not go without a fight, sources say. Party members close to Maimane told the Sunday Times this week that the former Zille protégé believes the storm sparked by her tweet 10 days ago, in which she praised aspects of colonialism, means she has to go.

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