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’.
Twitter also reacted to the news:
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