STATEMENT BY PATRICIA DE LILLE, FORMER EXECUTIVE MAYOR OF CAPE TOWN AND FORMER MEMBER OF THE DA.
15 November 2018
ANOTHER FALSE DA CONCOCTION TO DAMAGE MY NAME AND REPUTATION COLLAPSES AS THEY ABANDON THE “STEENHUISEN COMMITTEE” FINDINGS AGAINST ME.
DA agrees to a Western Cape High Court Order in which they abandon all of the findings against me in the so-called Steenhuisen Report.
In December 2017 the DA Federal Executive adopted a report prepared by a committee set up to investigate “tensions within the Cape Town DA caucus”. That committee was chaired by DA Chief Whip in parliament, John Steenhuisen, and the report became known as the Steenhuisen Report.
The Steenhuisen Report made unsubstantiated and sweeping findings against me. Findings that committee was not entitled to arrive at given that the committee had adopted an informal style without the opportunity for the veracity of the gossip and allegations to be tested through cross-examination.