Now Maimane lays into Zille over Sunday Times article
'Helen's article in the Sunday Times was neither approved or agreed with'
DA party leader Mmusi Maimane has denied claims by his predecessor Helen Zille‚ that a recent Sunday Times article written by her was approved by his office. Maimane told The Times that Zille wrote in her own capacity‚ "and not in the name of the DA". "Helen's article in the Sunday Times was neither approved or agreed with‚" he said. Earlier on Sunday Zille dismissed an assertion she had gone "rogue"‚ charging that articles written by her within the past fortnight were cleared by Maimane. Zille tweeted that articles she had written which appeared in the Sunday Times and on the Daily Maverick website‚ had gone to Maimane’s office for “vetting”. “For the record I submitted last week's STimes and DMaverick articles to @MmusiMaimane‘s office for vetting before publication. What rogue?” Zille said in her tweet She was responding to Times Media Editor-in-Chief Peter Bruce‚ who wrote in his column in the Sunday Times that Zille had “gone rogue” and would “write and say what she wants now t...
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