The polemic puppet and the peeved politician

Missing and the subject of his ire in 'happier' times. (Image: Extracted from YouTube)

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• Mail & Guardian: Chester Missing's twar with Helen Zille... Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille wrote a newsletter titled 'Racism is not free speech. It is an offence' and you could be forgiven for thinking that that is a line with which most right-thinking would agree and that would be the end of it.

  Think again.

  The trouble started afterwards: Missing was miffed because Zille initially said nothing when he was personally attacked for his stance on racism and ended up tweeting that in his view Zille thinks apartheid wasn't so bad.

  The comments below the original article give some insight into how the participants in this handbags-at-dawn tiff in a teacup are viewed by some of those who read the piece.