PETER BRUCE: The DA's cruel streak is showing as it drags out De Lille execution
There's a cruel streak in the DA that likes to drag out an execution. Ask Zille. Party leaders would call it due process or "being fair", but it's more than that because, you see, the rest of us are watching too
The scandal developing around Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille is a mess - for her and for the ruling party in the city and its surrounding Western Cape province, the DA. The details are too many. Basically, she is accused by the DA of protecting corrupt or incompetent municipal executives and of centralising power in the city in her own office. She wouldn't be the first mayor to do so, nor the last. So what's the problem? Cape Town is very well managed and has been ever since former DA leader Helen Zille was mayor between 2006 and 2009. De Lille has done just fine, surely?Apparently not. Here is a fraction of the charges the DA federal executive is bringing against her. The language tells you it is going for broke. "Evidence of deep divisions within the caucus of the City of Cape Town. These divisions were shown to have been a result of the Mayor's particular leadership style which is overwhelmingly viewed as unnecessarily autocratic, divisive and misaligned to democratic principl...
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