ANC calls for Parliament to sanction DA over City of Cape Town scandals
The ANC wants Parliament to sanction DA leader Mmusi Maimane over his alleged role in factional fights roiling the City of Cape Town. It will ask Parliament’s ethics committee to investigate Maimane and the DA federal legal commission chairman‚ Glynnis Breytenbach‚ over claims they were in possession of confidential city council forensic reports. The allegation relates to more than 1‚000 files that became central to the fallout between mayor Patricia de Lille and the executive director in her office‚ Craig Kesson. The mayor accused Kesson of leaking the documents to the party after Breytenbach allegedly called city officials demanding more information about them. The accusations are still under dispute after a confidential report claimed it was, in fact, De Lille who supplied the documents‚ an allegation she denies. In disputing a damning investigative report by attorneys Bowman Gilfillan‚ De Lille said she had a letter from Maimane in which he confirmed he did not get the reports f...
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