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Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's report on Western Cape first Helen Zille's tweets about colonialism will not be entertained by the Western Cape legislature, DA chief bad Mark Wiley said on Wednesday.
"Unfortunately, the public protector seems to have given Helen Zille's tweeting with the Western Cape legislature.
"If she reads the law, she has to to give it to another post box, "he said.
" The functions of the Western Cape provincial parliament do not include those mentioned in the report's recommendations. "
He said the recommendations were, in any event," outside of The Public Protector's Mandate "and Zille was taking it on judicial review.
READ: Did the Public Protector misapply the law on Zille's tweets?
Zille's spokesperson Michael Mpofu
Zille has already been informed that it is likely to be in a position to report to the courts. In 2017, Zille tweeted: "For those claiming the legacy of colonialism was ONLY negative, think of our independent judiciary, transport infrastructure etc."
When Mkhwebane released the report last month, she said she had found that
"The tweet has brought back a lot of pain and suffering to victims of apartheid and colonialism in South Africa. It is a celebration of oppression, exploitation, racism and poverty which are the direct results of the legacy of colonialism. "
Mkhwebane had directed the speaker to the provincial legislature first accountable ".
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