CAPE TOWN MAYOR
Why Patricia de Lille's resignation is not end of the dispute
Despite the amicable tone of Sunday’s announcement by DA leader Mmusi Maimane that Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille is stepping down from her position, a key legal battle remains in play. Maimane said that after months of wrangling, all internal disciplinary charges against De Lille had been dropped and she would step down as mayor at the end of October. De Lille, who was elected mayor in 2011, remains a DA member. The party, which prides itself on good governance, has been unhappy with her leadership style and the loss of the City of Cape Town’s clean audit status in the 2016/2017 fiscal year. The DA still intends to challenge a ruling handed down by the high court in Cape Town in June, which set aside its decision to strip De Lille of her party membership and found that the DA’s federal legal commission was improperly constituted.
The second aspect of the ruling has potentially far- reaching implications, as it means that previous decisions taken by the federal legal commis...
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