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OPINION: 'I warned Mmusi Maimane about the laptop boys', writes PatriciaDeLille

A year ago, after having to obtain court protection for the third time to stop the DA lying about me and slandering my name, I stepped down on my terms from the position as executive mayor of Cape Town and resigned from the party.

Over the past several years, our political discourse became totally bogged down in the quicksands of Nkandla. In Parliament, opposition parties sought to define themselves by the level of abuse they could hurl at the ruling party - while the ruling party sought by all means to defend the indefensible. Looters of the State had virtually free reign.

It was as if nothing else mattered; as if the grotesque levels of poverty didn’t exist, and the task of fixing post-apartheid South Africa was yesterday’s news. I ultimately fell out with the DA over matters of principle. Simply put, I discovered that the party didn’t have any. It was schizophrenic. It was difficult to tell who was in charge.

 

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