Helen Zille is proof that you can get away with extraordinary offenses to morality and truth in this country if you are a white member of the DA
16 March 2017
The Congress of South African Trade Unions rejects and strongly condemns the senseless and thoughtless statements by the Western Cape Premier Helen Zille, who claimed that colonialism wasn’t all bad on Twitter. This ranks as one of the stupidest thing that she has said, but COSATU is not surprised by her sheer blatancy and unpardonable statements. Helen Zille has consistently proved herself not just to be a moral cretin and a political idiot but also to be a closet racially prejudiced individual struggling to contain her disdain for black people.
Colonialism was not about civilising the natives as she seems to suggest but was about subjugating and killing our people and plundering the resources of our continent. This period represented a dark and painful past for black people and these kinds of statements are an insult to many black heroes and heroines, who shed blood to fight colonialism and apartheid.
The question that needs to be asked is why do so many white people; DA members in particular, feel that they can insult black people with impunity.
There is no absolute standard of free speech in any society and no law in life or nature that says a group of people may be insulted with impunity. But the DA leadership seems to have claimed this mantle for themselves to insult black people and glorify and idealise the dark past of this country that left many black people dead or indigent.