A top Democratric Alliance (DA) figure could be facing party discipline over a social media post that praised an apartheid-era president.
Dianne Kohler Barnard‚ the DA’s Shadow Minister of Police on Thursday‚ tweeted: “I apologise unreservedly for sharing a post on FB in the midst of which the author praised PW Botha.I erased it immediately I realised.”
Her party leader‚ Mmusi Maimane‚ had picked up on social media outrage‚ and took to Twitter: “The post by @DKB20 is indefensible. She has withdrawn it and apologized. now our internal disciplinary processes will be dealing with this.”
Kohler Barnard later retweeted Maimane’s scolding.
The offensive Facebook post by Kohler Barnard originated from Citizen journalist Paul Kirk‚ who seemingly took issue with new national Hawks head Lieutenant-General Berning Ntlemeza’s recent filing of court papers opposing suspended KwaZulu-Natal Hawks boss Major-General Johan Booysen Booysen’s high court application to set aside his sidelining.
Kirk claimed the “ace detective” had been suspended “over a typing error”.
“This is a bloody circus‚” Kirk wrote.
“Please come back PW Botha. You were far more honest than any of these ANC rogues.”
Maimane: Kohler Barnard’s PW post ‘is indefensible’
A top Democratric Alliance (DA) figure could be facing party discipline over a social media post that praised an apartheid-era president.
Dianne Kohler Barnard‚ the DA’s Shadow Minister of Police on Thursday‚ tweeted: “I apologise unreservedly for sharing a post on FB in the midst of which the author praised PW Botha.I erased it immediately I realised.”
Her party leader‚ Mmusi Maimane‚ had picked up on social media outrage‚ and took to Twitter: “The post by @DKB20 is indefensible. She has withdrawn it and apologized. now our internal disciplinary processes will be dealing with this.”
Kohler Barnard later retweeted Maimane’s scolding.
The offensive Facebook post by Kohler Barnard originated from Citizen journalist Paul Kirk‚ who seemingly took issue with new national Hawks head Lieutenant-General Berning Ntlemeza’s recent filing of court papers opposing suspended KwaZulu-Natal Hawks boss Major-General Johan Booysen Booysen’s high court application to set aside his sidelining.
Kirk claimed the “ace detective” had been suspended “over a typing error”.
“This is a bloody circus‚” Kirk wrote.
“Please come back PW Botha. You were far more honest than any of these ANC rogues.”