LETTER: What victim mentality?
All I wanted was to clear my name in a fair and open process
The letter headlined De Lille’s victim mentality (August 20), needs help with the facts. People are entitled to their opinions, not to their own facts. Throughout my battle with the DA, I never at any stage ran away from the disciplinary proceedings. I fought for the process to be fair — not for it not to happen. All I wanted was to clear my name in a fair and open process, but instead there were serious shortcomings, such as the composition of the disciplinary panel, which had to be reconstituted. I was charged and, before I could answer the allegations against me, the first motion of no confidence was held. These were attempts and shortcuts used to get rid of me before affording me a fair and open disciplinary process where the allegations against me could be tested. The courts found in my favour three times this year, including a ruling against the DA by a full bench of the high court. One of those cases was to compel the party to provide the evidence of the untested allegations,...
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