Helen Zille has unreservedly apologized for her statements about colonialism on social media. In return, her prosecutor, DA leader Mmusi Maimane, allowed her to stay on as Western Cape Premier, but she would have no say in the DA’s decision making.
Political analyst and former well-known radio announcer Francois van Wyk in response to these events on Facebook said: “Now I understand that Zille had to bend very low as ordered that she may stay and help fight the fires and fill up the dams again. Because there are no more farmers to undermine and challenge and the colonial issue is now believed to be resolved. And further, her input will be worthless in discussions and negotiations and will happen without her in the future.”
“What is not yet clear to me is in which language the settlement took place. Surely you cannot logically make use of a destructive colonial language to command and even to acknowledge that colonialism is not something corrupt.”
“Would you now, therefore be able to expect Maimane to stay faithful to his conviction, and that in future, without shoes, and without clothes, would he be able to come to work? Because the goods came with the colonialists.”
Meanwhile, other observers are asking whether the scales may have fallen off Zille’s eyes and she sees her Black-Sash membership and dance with the Africans as not working, especially after the EFF put it bluntly that Zille is an “untransformed racist.” The EFF says anti-black racism has exacerbated by the psyche of liberal whites who think they did their part because they were involved in the liberation struggle.
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