MADIKIZELA-MANDELA MEMORIAL
De Lille could have made a courtesy call, says DA
The DA says it will not take any action against its Cape Town mayor, Patricia De Lille, for addressing a memorial service for struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. De Lille on Wednesday attended a memorial service organised by the EFF in the Free State town of Brandfort, where Madikizela-Mandela was banished by the apartheid government for eight years. DA national spokeswoman Refiloe Nt’sekhe said the party had not been aware that De Lille would be at the memorial service and she could have made a "courtesy call" to inform it of her attendance. "Ms De Lille’s attendance at the memorial yesterday is a matter between her and the EFF leadership and not the DA," she said on Thursday. "A courtesy call to alert the DA would have been welcomed." Nt’sekhe said the DA had received an invitation from the EFF to attend the service and had sent its Free State provincial leader, Patricia Kopane. The Cape Town mayor is at loggerheads with the DA and is facing a disciplinary hearing on other ma...
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