DAMAGING ALLEGATIONS
DA Western Cape committee steps in over leadership race
The DA’s Western Cape provincial executive committee held an emergency meeting on Monday morning to discuss the "damaging" reports around its leadership race. The jostling for acting leader in the province is getting ugly, with accusations of racism and doctoring of reports taking centre stage. An election is due on Saturday to fill the post left vacant by Patricia De Lille, who resigned in January. While five candidates will fight it out for the position, many are predicting that the real race will be between interim leader and human settlements MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela and the DA’s Cape Town metro chairman, Shaun August. But some within the DA are calling for August to be disqualified after he was found to have violated the party’s procurement guidelines. August and fellow DA councillor Matthew Kempthorne were found guilty in January of procuring party T-shirts during the 2016 local government election campaign without following tender processes. They were fined about R50,000 eac...
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