Zille is just like Mugabe, says Twitter on ‘Dear Helen’ hashtag

Columnist Max du Preez wrote a column pleading with Western Cape Premier Helen Zille to stop causing divisions within the DA and just step down.

His column, titled ‘Dear Helen, please call it off’, and published on News24 on Tuesday, points out all the positive things Zille had done, but it also calls for her to step down following her tweets on colonialism.

Tweeps were so impressed with the column they started a hashtag, #DearHelen, to tell the premier exactly what they thought of her. While some reiterated Du Preez’s call for Zille to step down, some said she must stay there so she could expose further cracks within the party.

Some have likened her to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who was once described as a president who would rule from his grave.

The premier, however, did not seem to be bothered with the column or the tweets, as she was busy warning Capetonians to prepare for the big storm set to hit Western Cape today and tomorrow.

“Alert: Due to severity of storm expected in next 24 hrs, Western Cape government has taken an unprecedented decision to close prov schools tomorrow 7 June,” she wrote.

Check out some of the tweets below:

https://twitter.com/tololodj/status/872038368829472768

https://twitter.com/Cameo_Edwards1/status/872042200108077058

Max Du Preez has always been a champ. I remember him from that 90s SABC 2 TRC show. Maybe "Dear Helen" is the perfect call for Zille to go.

— Winnie Wakanda Washington 🇿🇦 (@WinnieWakandaW) June 6, 2017

https://twitter.com/lukewaltham/status/872040852411088898

"Dear Helen" What you nurtured has now evolved into a #DA everyone is proud of… stop allowing others to use you to destroy it… CIAO

— Jonathan Levin (@Gawiesnr) June 6, 2017

https://twitter.com/neozaneozaMda/status/872040152130084865

So as a backhanded compliment,we should be taught an "alternative history" where byproducts of colonialism "magically appeared"? Dear Helen.

— Samantha 🇺🇦 (@agentcurieuse) June 6, 2017

Dear Helen

Please address the issue of the leaking dam in Cape Town that has been the real cause of the "water crisis"

— pink jersey (@pinkjersey2) June 6, 2017

Dear Helen. No difference between Mugabe n Helen Zille. Both currently holding on power for their dear lives. pic.twitter.com/4w8Kvvj8G8

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— Viva ANC (@kalipile1) June 6, 2017

Dear Helen,

Your R.E.S.I.G.N.A.T.I.O.N is gracously requested to free use from Zuma & gupta #StateCapture stanglehold.

Sincerely
Thamsanqa pic.twitter.com/BmPWJHQgE8

— Monghadi Mazambi (@MonghadiMazambi) June 6, 2017

Dear Helen

You are the biggest hypocrite, always preaching about how Zuma should be brought before justice yet you are as corrupt. Sies!

— Angela💕 (@Angela_Kondile_) June 6, 2017

https://twitter.com/kulanicool/status/872028207746252801

Dear Helen

Don't allow these men to bully you, very sweet of them to write an article about you. Very unnecessary too.

— Nokuzola Ndwandwe South African Activist 🇿🇦🩸📚 (@Nokuzola_SA) June 6, 2017

https://twitter.com/hottentotes/status/872030123733725184

Dear Helen pic.twitter.com/7AAfkleTSE

— Bazil The Bulldog (@BaziltheBulldog) June 6, 2017

https://twitter.com/pontshoseaba/status/872031034300395520