Patricia de Lille‚ whose job as mayor of Cape Town is on the line at Sunday’s meeting of the DA’s top brass‚ practises rampant nepotism and cronyism. This is one of the allegations made to a federal executive sub-committee‚ chaired by chief whip John Steenhuisen‚ which investigated the breakdown of relations in the City of Cape Town’s DA caucus. Steenhuisen’s report said: "There appears to be a large amount of related-party employment practices undertaken. This is an extremely unhealthy situation as it has the potential to expose the party to charges of nepotism and cadre deployment‚ something we are extremely critical of the ANC for." Mayoral committee member JP Smith made wide-ranging allegations of nepotism‚ cronyism‚ favouritism and interference in recruitment processes in a dossier about De Lille which he sent to party leader Mmusi Maimane last July. The dossier is in the possession of TimesLIVE. He alleged that family members and friends of councillors had been employed in the...
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