ANC fails to remove Zille
Some ANC MPLs were absent from the debate including the one who tabled the motion.
Helen Zille addresses delegates at the opening ceremony of the Democratic Alliance’s Federal Congress,9 May 2015, at the Boardwalk Conference centre in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Picture: Alaister Russell
The Western Cape premier Helen Zille survived a motion of no confidence against her on Thursday.
The opposition party in the province, the ANC, tabled the motion last month following a backlash against Zille’s controversial colonialism tweets.
She was also charged by her own party, the DA, and later suspended from party activities.
Some ANC MPLs were absent from the debate, including the one who tabled the motion.
Following her victory Zille said the ANC had ‘lost the plot’.
ANC praised me today for supporting them under apartheid but said I had later lost the plot and opposed them. The truth: ANC lost the plot.
— Helen Zille (@helenzille) July 27, 2017
Twitter also reacted to the news:
And Zille wins the motion of #NoConfidence against her!
— @SydneyLetsapa (@SydneyLetsapa) July 27, 2017
EFF says it will abstain from #ZilleNoConfidence because the “ANC doesn’t have a leg to stand on. It has its own corrupt leader.”
— Lester Kiewit (@lesterkk) July 27, 2017
