Zille hits back at Twitter critics
13 January 2020
DA federal council chairperson Helen Zille says many people are "delighted" that she has been "drawing the line" against what she calls "fauxragers" on social media, a term coined to describe what she believes is fake outrage.
Zille caused a stir on social media over the past month, initially sharing a cartoon that in her terms, was a critique of "race generalisations". Last week she used the term "Woko Haram" in response to a tweet by Piers Morgan regarding Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, another term she believes describes fake outrage.
Because of this, some users have declared that they will not vote for the DA again.
Zille spoke to News24 and said she believed the users were bots or people who never voted for the DA in the first place.