Public protector stands by claim Helen Zille’s tweets are racist
Zille is challenging Mkhwebane’s findings and remedial action in the tweet report
Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane insists that Western Cape premier Helen Zille intentionally caused harm and offence with her controversial colonialism tweets which she says were “likely to cause racial tension, divisions and violence in SA”. “Leaders in her position should avoid statements that have the effect of dividing society on the basis of their racial experiences,” Mkhwebane stated in court papers in response to Zille’s legal challenge to her tweet report. “There need not be actual scenes of racial tension, violence and division to support a finding on the potential effects of a divisive and insensitive statement about the painful history of the majority of South Africans,” she said.
Zille is challenging Mkhwebane’s findings and remedial action in the report that has found that Zille’s tweets are “likely to cause racial tension, divisions and violence in SA”. She found also that the constitution, which upholds the right to freedom of expression, was “not created to ...
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