'This is not what I signed up for' - Abel Tau quits DA, joins Mashaba movement

JOHANNESBURG – The regional chairperson of the Democratic Alliance in Tshwane, Abel Tau, on Thursday morning announced that he had resigned with immediate effect as a member of the party.

“Herman Mashaba is launching a party on 29 August 2020. This is my party as well. I want to work with a number of ordinary men and women in the City of Tshwane to win this city and restore it to its glory,” Tau said in a short video that he posted on his Twitter account. “I know we can do this task. It is a task that I feel we are up too, and we want to fulfil.”

— Cllr Abel Tau July 30, 2020 Tau, who also had a brief stint as the acting mayor of the City of Tshwane before it was placed under administration earlier this year in March, said that he was unhappy about the current state of affairs of the city. In April, the Pretoria High Court Pretoria set aside the decision by the Gauteng provincial government to place the Tshwane council under administration. However, the administrators continue to preside over the metro’s affairs.

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