SA politician to be investigated over colonialism tweets

South Africa's former main opposition leader Helen Zille will face a disciplinary process from her own Democratic Alliance (DA) party after posting tweets suggesting that the legacy of colonialism was not all negative (see previous entries).
In an interview with Talk Radio 702, DA leader Mmusi Maimane said:

It has been referred to a disciplinary process. I have come out as a South African and condemned it. The wording is indefensible."

On his own Twitter profile, he made his views on the comments from his party's former leader plain, while not addressing calls for her to stand down:

The radical opposition EFF party rejected Ms Zille's apology for her comments and called for her to be removed from her post as leader of Western Cape province, launching a scathing attack on her character:

It is a fact that many racist white people sit on dinner tables when black people are not there and express their cold-hearted racism; this is what Helen Zille truly is; a cold-hearted racist who believes that colonialism, which was crime against the humanity of black people, is not a bad thing."

A Western Cape branch of the governing ANC party has also called on the outspoken former opposition leader to stand down over the comments, which have sparked outrage on social media.