THE disciplinary panel that will hear the case against dissident DA MP Masizole Mnqasela will be made up of two members of the party's provincial legislatures and two attorneys who are ordinary DA members.
Mnqasela has been charged with six counts of misconduct after comments he made about DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko and party leader Helen Zille shortly before the hotly contested elections for the party's parliamentary leader.
Mnqasela wrote a document in which he insinuated that Mazibuko was not black enough to lead the party in parliament, and accused Zille of running the DA like a "spaza shop".
He has also been charged with abusing his position as an MP after he allegedly asked Brent Gerber, director-general of the Department of the Premier in the DA-led Western Cape, to award a tender to a company he (Mnqasela) was linked to.
No details have been released regarding this matter, but insiders said it related to property development.
Debbie Schaffer, the registrar of the DA federal legal commission, which pressed six charges of misconduct against Mnqasela this week, told the Sunday Times on Friday that Les Labuschagne, a Gauteng MPL, was to chair the panel.
Labuschagne will be assisted by his Mpumalanga counterpart James Masango, who backed Mazibuko in the DA's parliamentary elections . Other panel members are BJ Liebenberg, Jennifer Smith, and Johannesburg councillor Solani Gudluza.
Mnqasela said he was focusing on his vacation and family. "I will deal with these details when I come back from holiday."
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