Patricia de Lille 'within her rights' to pay tribute to Mama Winnie - Shivambu
12 April 2018
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) deputy president Floyd Shivambu has come to the defence of Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille, who had appeared at the EFF's memorial service for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Wednesday.
De Lille was a guest speaker at an EFF rally, paying tribute to the veteran struggle icon who passed away last Monday in Johannesburg following an illness at the age of 81.
The rally was held in Brandfort in the Free State, the town Madikizela-Mandela was banished to in the mid-1970s.
De Lille's party, the Democratic Alliance, has since said it would be asking her for reasons why she attended, saying she had not informed the party beforehand, as was protocol.