ANC banking on Pascoe the poacher in next year's poll

07 October 2015 - 02:03 By Aphiwe Deklerk

A former DA heavyweight in Cape Town, Grant Pascoe, is the ANC's secret weapon for next year's local elections, tasked with poaching members of his former party. ANC Western Cape chairman Marius Fransman said yesterday Pascoe had been given the job a year after he left his high-paying position as a member of mayor Patricia de Lille's executive to join the ANC.Fransman was speaking at a news conference called by the ANC to parade its latest recruit, DA City of Cape Town councillor Cyril Mack, who defected with his son and another DA leader, Danny Bolton.Mack's son, Grant, was a member of the DA Student Organisation at the University of the Western Cape and Bolton was party secretary at its Durbanville branch."We have decided, guided by the constant gaze of our conscience and our moral compass, as members of the Democratic Alliance who have done our utmost best to try and build a non-racial and inclusive party, to leave and join a party that truly represents exactly those values of non-racialism and inclusiveness," Mack said.DA Cape Metro chairman Shaun August said: "[Mack] has left the most diverse, fastest-growing and most inclusive party in South Africa."Fransman said: We have Grant Pascoe in this and we have asked him to go and engage all the other people [from the DA]."..

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