Leaker of confidential information has DA membership terminated
16 October 2020
Today the Democratic Alliance (DA) membership of a confirmed leaker of confidential information and strategy has been terminated, after a three year long legal process finding her guilty, and an appeal confirming her guilt.
Ms Nkele Molapo’s guilt has been tried by a fair process of the DA Federal Legal Commission, and after she appealed, her guilt was confirmed by an Appeal Panel of the Federal Legal Commission. The sanction imposed upon Ms Molapo is the immediate termination of her Party membership, against which there are now no possible further internal appeals.
This brings to a close a three-year process to seek accountability for acts Ms Molapo committed in 2017, leaking confidential information from the DA Tshwane Government to our opponents, the Economic Freedom Fighters. At the time, with evidence of this leaking presented to then Mayor of Tshwane, Solly Msimanga, a case against Ms. Molapo was opened by Msimanga with the DA Federal Legal Commission. Today Solly Msimanga is vindicated for doing what was right at the time, in taking action against a DA colleague.
The finding of the Federal Legal Commission includes: "It is very clear that the Panel a quo weighed the evidence before them carefully. On the one hand, the evidence led by witnesses for the Party corroborated each other. Msimanga handed his phone to the Panel a quo so that the messages could be inspected by them. There were logical explanations and timelines given by the Party and again these explanations and timelines could mostly be corroborated by one or more witnesses.