Helen Zille’s (b) adventures in Twitter land

Helen Zille’s Twitter mishaps have caused the official opposition some major red-facery over the years.

Thursday’s colonialism comment may be the final nail in her political coffin‚ some opinionistas are saying.

• READ MORE: Zille takes it a tweet too farWestern Cape premier Helen Zille dodged questions yesterday about her Twitter comments that appeared to praise colonialism. 

There has been massive outrage over the tweet‚ but here are other times the Western Cape premier landed in hot water over her social media outbursts:

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This tweet‚ long since deleted‚ called school learners from the Eastern Cape “refugees”.

Or this one‚ when she weighed in on the “two blacks” restaurant bill that caused national outrage.

Helen Zille is the archetypal white SAn historical revisionist & apologist. Ignores & reinvents fact to frame the oppressed as oppressors. pic.twitter.com/LR27pcNIwF

— °○. (@Tioranta) December 21, 2016

Or the time she suggested that protesting students that they should leave the campus if they were so unhappy. She famously told the Cape Argus newspaper “to write whatever they wanted” because she was sleeping when contacted for comment.

If this woke bunch hate being UCT students so much, pls help them out of their misery and withdraw their funding. pic.twitter.com/MnfdFVWB11

— Helen Zille (@helenzille) August 3, 2016

Zille has survived the past Twitter storms‚ but on Thursday she was forced to issue an apology‚ after initially defending her utterances.

• READ: Colonialism wasn't all bad‚ says Helen ZilleWestern Cape Premier Helen Zille has sparked anger on social media by saying that colonialism wasn’t all bad.
• READ: Helen Zille apologises for saying colonialism wasn’t all badWestern Cape Premier Helen Zille apologised on Thursday for suggesting that colonialism had positive spin-offs.
• READ: BREAKING: Zille faces disciplinary action from DA after controversial tweetsWestern Cape premier Helen Zille is being investigated by her party because of her controversial social media utterances‚ DA leader Mmusi Maimane said on Thursday.

DA leader Mmusi Maimane has said that Zille would face disciplinary action.