If Zille’s true to her word she’ll let Mmusi fire her
Zille’s tweeting while Berning’s burning
If Zille has the DA’s interests at heart she must go, because her actions are obscuring the rot in the ANC
Between them, Tony Leon and Helen Zille took the DA to the point where it became a viable alternative for government. That can happen if you are determined, principled and without fear in a country with a populist government that cannot keep a promise. And it was a remarkable achievement for two people who are white in modern SA. Zille looked hard before finding in Mmusi Maimane a successor she could live with and she conceded leadership of the party to him in 2015. He rewarded her confidence by delivering a stunning result for the DA in the 2016 local government elections. Because of that result, the DA not only controls Cape Town, but now and in coalition, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth too. All of which makes the current tension in the DA, over Zille’s “colonialism wasn’t all bad” tweet and Maimane’s “yes it was” response so tragic. Where once the ANC was (well, it still is but no-one’s pushing) tottering, now the DA is. Zille is to be disciplined, and she is not the t...
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