MPLs get teeth into Zille tweets

23 March 2017 - 08:51 By APHIWE DEKLERK
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BOWING OUT: Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille announced yesterday that she is not available for re-election as DA leader after eight years
BOWING OUT: Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille announced yesterday that she is not available for re-election as DA leader after eight years
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Western Cape legislators will get the chance to debate Premier Helen Zille's tweets about colonialism next week.

Provincial legislature speaker Sharna Fernandez said the debate would take place on Tuesday at the request of Khaya Magaxa, leader of the opposition ANC.

  • Legislature's public roasting of Helen Zille set for TuesdayWestern Cape legislators will get the chance to debate Premier Helen Zille’s tweets about colonialism next week.

In his request, Magaxa said Zille's tweets were part of her campaign to "attack people of colour, insult citizens, smooth over colonialism, renege on her oath to uphold the constitution ... and embarrass our legislature, province and country."

  • Zille falls flat on her face as time overtakes herWhen Western Cape Premier Helen Zille announced her retirement as leader of the Democratic Alliance in 2015, the party's press statement quoted her saying: "I would rather err on the side of being ahead of my time."

Fernandez said the debate would take precedence over other business of the House.

Zille is also facing a DA investigation after a number of the party's leading lights, led by federal leader Mmusi Maimane, distanced themselves from her.

  • ANC harps on Zille's howlerKwaZ-Natal finance MEC and ANC veteran Belinda Scott says that she is ashamed to be white after the utterances on colonialism by Western Cape premier Helen Zille.

Zille will meet Glynnis Breytenbach, who is chairman of the DA's federal legal commission, on Saturday.

Breytenbach will decide whether the premier should face a disciplinary hearing.

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