DA leader Mmusi Maimane wants his predecessor, Helen Zille, to quit.
According to two Sunday reports, Maimane this week spoke of what he said was the racism at the core of Zille's twitter comment suggesting that colonialism was not all that bad.
Zille faced the party's federal legal commission yesterday which will decide whether or not to institute full disciplinary proceedings against her.
But, Maimane told the City Press this week following Zille's tweet that there was an undertone which says black people can't leader except when managed by whites. Maimane said this belief is racist to the core and undermines Africans.
The Sunday Times reports that Maimane met Zille on Thursday to discuss her controversial tweet but said it was unclear if the DA leader had asked the Western Cape premier to step down.
Speaking in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday before a racially mixed crowd, Maimane said "any view that seeks to undermine that is a view that is inconsistent with the DA."
He said that was why he had taken "deliberate action to say the words of Premier Helen Zille are inconsistent with our party. I do not support the view".
