Veliswa Mvenya — PICTURE: ALAN EASON The shock resignation of the DA’s Eastern Cape provincial chairwoman‚ Veliswa Mvenya‚ has sent the party into a tailspin‚ prompting party bosses to rope in former leader Helen Zille to assist.The DA’s top leadership‚ including Zille and current leader Mmusi Maimane‚ met on Wednesday in a bid to come up with strategies to convince Mvenya not to leave.But Mvenya was not at the meeting and had switched off her phone.Her resignation has to do with infighting within the party in the Eastern Cape, with relations between her and provincial leader and federal chairman Athol Trollip at a low.Mvenya’s departure will severely hamper the DA’s hopes of winning the Nelson Mandela Bay metro in the upcoming local government elections and dent its attempts to make inroads in ANC-dominated areas in the Eastern Cape.Trollip is the DA’s mayoral candidate in the Mandela metro.Mvenya submitted her letter of resignation to the party’s Bhisho office on Wednesday afterno...
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