Maimane says De Lille telemarketing case will end up at Electoral Court
23 April 2019
GOOD leader Patricia de Lille has approached the Western Cape High Court for an urgent interdict to stop the DA from making claims about her in its telemarketing campaign but DA leader Mmusi Maimane says it is all about semantics.
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) last week ordered the DA to "cease and desist" from saying De Lille was fired as the mayor of Cape Town, and also ordered the DA to publicly apologise to De Lille within three days.
De Lille said in a statement this week that the DA had refused to abide by the IEC's decision, questioning their intention just two weeks before elections.
"My lawyers have requested the DA to give me an undertaking to stop using their false script, saying that they "fired me", at least until a court has determined the finding of the IEC," she said.