DA could suspend Patricia de Lille after confidential document was leaked
Cape Town mayor and former leader of the DA in the Western Cape Patricia de Lille, is under fire and faces possible suspension for allegedly violating the party’s policy on the confidentiality of closed meetings. This come after a document was leaked to the media. The document relates to an investigation into the "flouting" of the party’s procurement rules by Shaun August, the DA’s Cape Town metro chairperson. August is also one of the two leading candidates for the position of acting provincial leader, which will be contested on Saturday. The other frontrunner is interim leader and human settlements MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela. De Lille resigned as provincial leader in January, under controversial circumstances. It is alleged that August’s camp, with the full knowledge of De Lille, leaked a sanitised, or doctored, federal executive report to an Afrikaans publication, which tried to clear August of the procurement scandal. DA sources have said De Lille was backing August for the actin...
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