South Africa opposition party files charges against regional leader over tweet

‘South Africa’s Democratic Alliance (DA), the country’s main opposition party, has brought up charges against a powerful regional leader over a tweet she posted hailing the era of colonialism.
The DA authorities said Sunday that Helen Zille, former DA leader and the current premier of the Western Cape Province, was charged with misconduct after she wrote on her Twitter account last month that colonialism had brought benefits including clean water.
Zille lashed out at the critics of colonial era in South Africa, saying the country had benefited during the period and it was not all negative.
“For those claiming legacy of colonialism was ONLY negative, think of our independent judiciary, transport infrastructure, piped water,” she tweeted.’
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