Steenhuisen won't speak out against Zille's ‘racist’ tweets to avoid 'tit for tat'

28 June 2020 - 00:01 By Sthembile Cele and aphiwe deklerk

Interim DA leader John Steenhuisen has told party MPs that he will not speak out against Helen Zille’s apartheid tweets in public because he wants to avoid a “tit for tat ”with her...

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