Mkhwebane relied on public outrage in Zille colonialism tweet probe, court hears

Helen Zille’s advocate has argued that public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane “didn’t make any objective assessment” of the former DA leader's controversial tweets on colonialism and instead relied on evidence about outraged public reaction to find that she had violated the constitution.

Rosenberg argued that in order to make such a finding it needed to be shown and proved that the colonialism tweets by Zille, who is also the former Western Cape premier, provoked or incited imminent violence. “The evidence is that the tweets provoked robust, healthy debate,” he said, adding that the tweets “were not racially polarising”, as Mkhwebane had found them to be.

Zille is fighting for Mkhwebane's report on her tweets to be reviewed and set aside, on the basis that it is irrational and unlawful. Returning from a trip to Singapore, Zille tweeted that “for those claiming legacy of colonialism was only negative, think of our independent judiciary, transport, infrastructure, piped water etc”.

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