Zwakele Mncwango resigns as a member of the DA

8 October 2022

The DA in KwaZulu-Natal has received a letter from Zwakele Mncwango resigning his membership of the party.

This comes three days after Zwakele resigned as a member of the Provincial Legislature and made a public commitment that he was still a member of the DA.

We now understand that he will take up the position of ActionSA chairperson in KZN before the end of October, which was his plan since he announced his first resignation earlier this week.

The DA believes that Zwakele has been planning his departure to ActionSA for the last month. Therefore, we feel he needs to come clean with the public and his new party as to why he saw it fit to enjoy the perks of his office in the Legislature, at the pleasure of the DA, while planning his departure to his new political party.

These perks included an overseas trip in the last month to Norway and Uganda which cost taxpayers roughly R150 000. Surely if he had such misgivings about the DA, he should have resigned from the party before he enjoyed this costly trip.

That Zwakele would attempt to use the “cease and desist” letter he received yesterday from the Federal Executive, after he made a number of allegations against the party without ever raising them in a formal structure of the party, can not go left unchallenged and is a fig leaf for his real reason to leave the DA, and that is to join ActionSA.

Whatever spin that he may try and put on his departure, it is important that the public know the truth behind his resignation.

Issued by Francois Rodgers, DA KZN Leader, 8 October 2022