Disciplinary cases in the DA that could be managed politically should not be dealt with by the party’s federal legal commission, the federal council says. The federal legal commission, which acts as the DA’s disciplinary committee, had to be reconstituted at a federal council meeting at the weekend after a high court judgment — which set aside the party’s cessation of Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille’s membership — found that the federal legal commission was not properly constituted. De Lille’s case, as well as that of Knysna mayor Mark Willemse, who refused to resign as mayor after he was voted in without the party’s mandate, are examples of cases that could initially have been solved by political intervention, rather than the protracted disciplinary and legal processes they have become. Analysts say the way the party has dealt with these cases could negatively affect voter sentiment. The De Lille matter, in particular, could have a strong effect in the Western Cape and the Northe...
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