Dooms DA: Opposition flung into chaos

24 October 2019 - 06:00
By Thabo Mokone
Both DA leader Mmusi Maimane and DA federal chair Athol Trollip quit the party on Wednesday.
Image: Alaister Russell Both DA leader Mmusi Maimane and DA federal chair Athol Trollip quit the party on Wednesday.

The DA has been plunged into a leadership crisis after two of its top office-bearers quit their positions as unhappiness about strongwoman Helen Zille continued to tear the party apart.

With Mmusi Maimane and Athol Trollip gone, no one even knows how to pick a new leader.

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