ZERO-TOLERANCE APPROACH
DA’s Peetz loses membership over travel claims
Sharon Peetz, the former mayoral committee member for economic development in the City of Johannesburg who took her mother to Spain and tried to get the metro to foot the bill, is no longer a DA member. Peetz lost her job on mayor Herman Mashaba’s executive team in August, but retained her position as a councillor. The latest development has thrown her place in the council into question. DA federal executive chairman James Selfe revealed that Peetz’s membership had been terminated in an answering affidavit filed in the High Court in Port Elizabeth, wherein the DA is opposing the United Democratic Movement’s application to have Mongameli Bobani reinstated as deputy mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay. Selfe said in the affidavit that the DA applied the same zero-tolerance approach towards its own members who were implicated in corruption and maladministration as it did to Bobani in the metro. He cited Peetz’s case and said she had been axed after it was found that she had arranged for her mo...
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