Former DA youth leader Mbali Ntuli was charged on Friday for breaching the party’s social media policy despite legal advice that she should not be charged.

Ntuli, a member of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, will have to answer to claims that she liked a Facebook comment that called embattled Western Cape Premier Helen Zille a racist. The comment Ntuli liked was made on a December 23 repost of an article titled, This Thread Covers Everything We Want To Say About Zille’s Tweets. It was a summary of tweets by Zille over the last few months of 2016.

The repost was allegedly followed up with a post in which Ntuli lamented that Zille had said some “outrageous” things on social media with no consequences and added that, “as a party, we should be clear about why some leaders can say whatever they want with impunity and others cannot. A little consistency would be nice”.