Helen Zille: 'All racial generalisations are wrong'
This comes after Zille caused a stir on social media by engaging on the topic of white privilege.
Well you clearly don't understand black privilege. It is being able to loot a country and steal hundreds of billions and get re-elected. If ppl want permanent poverty for the masses they are going about it the right way. #BlackPrivilege
— Helen Zille (@helenzille) May 17, 2019
Former public protector, Thuli Madonsela was one of the social media users who called Zille to order, saying: “Dear @helenzille white privilege is universal and comes with the premium the world places on whiteness plus accumulated historical advantages. To equate it with black privilege is myopic. To brand blacks as looters and political pretenders is wrong. Please withdraw and apologize." Madonelsa said.
Commenting to JacarandaFM News, Zille said: 'All racial generalizations are wrong. It is time to expose hypocrisy. I will be fighting double standards very hard in the years to come.'
However, political analyst Theo Venter says Zille is just being difficult and damaging the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the process.
"At one level she is talking about what is happening, but another level, by being politically incorrect, she's creating a lot of animosity and she's doing this to the detriment of the DA,” said Venter.
"Helen Zille has reached a point where she said I am not responsible to anyone anymore," Venter said.