LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Patricia de Lille’s removal from DA is a certainty, say party insiders
Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille is "certainly" on her way out and her representations to the party’s federal executive this week to save her job and party membership will be purely academic, party sources say. This is likely to prompt another legal challenge by De Lille as she clings to her position by a thread. After months of public rows between De Lille and some of her colleagues, the DA appeared to take a firm decision to dump her at the party’s recent federal congress when it adopted the "recall clause", making it possible for a DA representative in government to be recalled when the caucus has lost confidence in the individual. Last week, 70% of DA councillors in the Cape Town caucus voted for a motion of no confidence in De Lille. The mayor was accused of breaching the code of conduct for councillors as well as the constitution of the DA by bringing the party into disrepute, and also of breaching the conditions of her suspension. De Lille’s public conduct According to Weste...
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