Cape Town - Twitter users have zero chill. In response to DA leader Mmusi Maimane saying he had voted for Nelson Mandela in the 1990s, the social network exploded with the hashtag #ThingsMmusiDid listing his achievements and history, placing him at the scene of Jesus' crucifixion, the landing of the Drommedaris in 1652 and on Robben Island during the Rivonia Trialists' prison term.
Maimane would have been 14 when the country went to the polls for the first democratic elections in 1994, but would have been legally allowed to vote in the 1999 elections.
However, it was Thabo Mbeki running for the presidency that year, and not Madiba.
Mayihlome Tshwete, spokesman for the department of Home Affairs tweeted that the IEC needed to give answers as to how Maimane could have voted at the age of 14. Twitter took it from there.
It was trending all day Monday, with users retro-fitting Maimane's life story with interesting details.
Sports minister Fikile Mbalula tweeted that Maimane had been part of the 1976 student uprising, with Tshwete later tweeting a picture of EFF leader Julius Malema's visit to Mbeki's home yesterday and captioning it: "He arranged this meeting #ThingsMmusiDid."
Khaya Dlanga said that Maimane had played for both Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs "at the same time in a derby".
Other choice tweets included:
* He created the Afrikaans portion of the national anthem
* He was the water boy at the Battle of Isandlwana
* He was a waiter at the last supper
* He was the original host of Noot vir Noot
* He bought all the tickets for Cassper Nyovest to fill up the Dome
* He SMSed Jan van Riebeeck the GPS coordinates of Table Bay
* He caught the two fish Jesus fed to the masses
* He broke up Destiny's Child
* He taught Black Coffee how to DJ
* He taught President Jacob Zuma how to dab
The City of Joburg got in on the act, tweeting a picture of a municipal worker pulling a weathered DA elections poster from a drain: "When your picture blocks the drain but service delivery sorts it out."
The hashtag didn't go down too well with DA supporters, however. The DA's national spokeswoman Phumzile van Damme tweeted: "The thing about ANC peeps starting #ThingsMmusiDid, is that if we do a #ThingsZumaDid we won't have to make things up, because, well, Zuma."
Others tried to counter the success of #ThingsMmusiDid by tweeting #ThingsZumaDid, but this was met with criticism on the network.
User Lesia said: "Those trying to compete with #ThingsMmusiDid with a humourless #ThingsZumaDid are such prudes."
Political commentator Eusebius McKaiser also reacted: "The hashtag #ThingsMmusiDid is hilarious! Unless you're a humourless DA politician of course."
Cape Argus