OPINIONISTA: DA disorder: A power struggle clothed in ideology

” are jostling for control of the party in the wake of the poor election results is naïve and fundamentally flawed.

At a local level, this is evident from what we are seeing in Cape Town, where members of the DA loyal to the Deputy leader, JP Smith, recently failed to expel Grant Twigg, the Regional Chair. The DA’s leadership ultimately chose to intervene to prevent a counter-motion against Smith. I resigned from the DA, on 1 November 2018, at the end of a tumultuous two years during which the DA in the City of Cape Town was self-immolating – egged on by an irrational national leadership that was fuelling the fire rather than dousing it. The only achievement that their misguided leadership yielded was to maintain the apartheid spatial status quo of Cape Town. There was nothing ideological about their leadership.

Within days of us announcing that a number of well-located public land sites would be made available for affordable housing, I was requested to attend a meeting with a party donor – a property developer. When I prepared the first agreement, based on what Maimane had proposed and agreed to, it was Hill-Lewis who contacted me to arrange the delivery of an amended agreement that wiped out much of what Maimane had proposed and which killed off the negotiations for months.

brettherron Iyo... This sounds like a sophisticated Net Blankes Mafia styled Stokvel hell bent to preserve and further agenda of white supremacy... Scarry article... Must Read!

brettherron Lots of people with something to answer for . . . MmusiMaimane geordinhl helenzille

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