Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille expressed her unhappiness with the delays in her DA disciplinary hearing on Thursday and revealed that her legal bill is mounting. She vented her frustration after the hearing‚ in Parliament‚ was postponed when a member of the disciplinary panel‚ Adv Pogiso Monchusi‚ withdrew. A visibly disappointed De Lille said the hearing process would have to start all over again. "They have to find a replacement and they have to restart the process‚" she said. "So really, it is a waste of time. I have to pay my lawyers. So we didn’t get to the debate to make this hearing open. We just feel like going straight to court. We have been asking for the recusal of two members [Monchusi and Sheila Camerer] since Tuesday. We continued until one of the panel members decided to recuse himself this morning." De Lille is facing charges of bringing the DA into disrepute for her role in ructions in the City of Cape Town‚ which include allegations she instructed a report detai...
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