Despite a 'dishonest campaign' from Herman Mashaba's ActionSA, the DA outclassed the party during by-elections on Wednesday, according to the DA's national spokesperson Cilliers Brink. | JKwritingz
Juniour KhumaloThe DA retained the hotly contested Ward 96 in Tshwane, halting a stinging challenge by ActionSA.ActionSA dismissed the accusations, saying the DA is in decline and needs a scapegoat to justify its poor performances.
"As part of the ActionSA by-election campaign, Shackleton – who claims to be a resident of Ward 96 – was put to work, attacking the DA's service delivery record in the ward. Ironically, ActionSA's Hannes Coetzee had been the councillor for the same ward since 2011. If the irony wasn't lost on ActionSA, it was wilfully ignored.
Last week, Shackleton, who was the DA's North Gauteng deputy chairperson, announced in a video message that he had resigned from the DA to join ActionSA. "After all, how can you be part of a party that mistreats [the] community where you live? I have witnessed how the DA did nothing to support the previous councillor, Hannes Coetzee. I have witnessed how the DA did nothing to support his calls to investigate the corruption of the tender for the Rooiwal Treatment Plant."Brink rubbished the claims, saying they were nothing but an attempt by ActionSA to eat into the DA voter base and destabilise the coalition in Tshwane.
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