Nkohla goes from poo to 'true blue'

24 June 2016 - 09:44 By Ernest Mabuza, TMG Digital

Loyiso Nkohla stood before hundreds of Ses'khona People's Rights Movement members in Cape Town three months ago and proclaimed that black DA members were "black Boers" who should be chased out of townships. Yesterday, the DA gave Nkohla a hero's welcome in Khayelitsha when he led 500 ANC members and supporters who dumped their yellow and green T-shirts and donned blue ones.Nkohla shot to prominence in 2013 when he and Andile Lili staged their infamous "poo protests", dumping the contents of township toilets at Cape Town International Airport and on the steps of the provincial legislature.The 500 defectors issued a statement yesterday apologising to Capetonians for the harm they had caused during their protests around the city, and De Lille said she accepted that they had been fighting for better services, especially sanitation, for the poor. Nkohla will formally join the DA when he settles legal woes relating to protests, but in addition to the hundreds who joined the party yesterday, he said he would bring more supporters into the fold at a rally next month. - Aphiwe Deklerk'JZ will not elude court' claims DATHE DA is confident that the Pretoria High Court will stand by an April judgment to set aside the 2009 decision to discontinue President Jacob Zuma's prosecution on corruption charges.Acting National Director of Public Prosecutions Mokotedi Mpshe dropped the charges on the basis that Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy had supposedly manipulated the timing of when to serve the indictment against Zuma.Mpshe relied on intercepted conversations between McCarthy and former NPA boss Bulelani Ngcuka - commonly referred to as the spy tapes - in which they discussed when to serve an indictment against Zuma in December 2007. The DA maintained the timing of the charges had not prejudiced Zuma in any way.Earlier in June, the president and the National Prosecuting Authority applied for leave to appeal against the April judgment.The chairman of the DA's federal executive, James Selfe, said: "We are confident that the court will find in our favour and President Zuma [will] have his day in court, affording him the opportunity to defend himself, without fear or favour, on the 783 charges of corruption, fraud and racketeering." ..

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