DA welcomes the resignation of Patricia De Lille as the Mayor of Cape Town
31 October 2018
The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes the resignation of Patricia De Lille as the Mayor of the City of Cape Town and that she stuck to the agreement to resign.
After a difficult and protracted journey, we will now finally put this matter behind us and focus purely on the people of Cape Town, whom we are committed to serve.
Despite continuous vilification and insults from the outgoing mayor, the DA would like to take the opportunity to wish her well in her future endeavours.
The DA also notes Ms De Lille’s announcement that she has approached the Western Cape High Court to have the independent Bowmas Gilfillan report set aside (an investigation for which De Lille herself voted in favour of). It is, however, crucial to remember that this is an independent council report, which found her guilty of systematically breaking down good governance in the City of Cape Town. She did so by actively shielding and defending officials allegedly guilty of irregularities in relation to the BYD bus tender (where processes were fraudulently manipulated to illegally favour one bus provider) and the Volvo chassis matter (where the mayor chose to ignore and shield consequential action for irregular payment of R50 million).