To your last question: many people who think the DA is the best chance at good governance, regardless of witch hunts.

Better question would be: how many potential votes did Zille lose the DA with her idiotic tweets? If she wanted to express a nuanced view of history, write a book. Her tweets were nothing but the classic line that many whites have said since before I was born, and continue to say today: without us you would be nothing. She didn't mean that, but it sounded like it. As a politician and South African, how could she not realise that?

Most of the fruits of European technology were largely denied to Africans in the colonies. Just look at the percentage of households electrified before 94 compared to now. THAT was the legacy of colonialism, not electricity itself, which has been deployed globally regardless of colonial history.

The DA is not handling this well. But she put them in an impossible position to start with