Maimane slams Zuma, ANC over silence on Zambia's Hichilema treason trial
25 May 2017
Pretoria - DA leader Mmusi Maimane has said that his party would take action to "re-establish South Africa’s leading voice on the continent for the entrenchment of democracy and the upholding of human rights".
This voice was lost after former president Nelson Mandela left office, he said.
Maimane said in a statement he would be travelling to Lusaka, Zambia to attend the treason trial of Hakainde Hichilema, the leader of the United Party for National Development (UPND), Zambia’s largest opposition party.
Hichilema was detained six weeks ago for driving too slowly in front of Zambian President Edgar Lungu’s motorcade en route to a ceremony in the Western province of the country.