Rows await DA's new Cape leader
08 October 2017 - 00:03
Bonginkosi Madikizela was yesterday elected the new DA leader in the Western Cape and was immediately confronted by a feud and potential spending scandal.
Madikizela defeated Lennit Max in a tightly contested election. Madikizela's fellow MEC Albert Fritz was elected deputy, beating Masizole Mnqasela. Anton Bredell was retained as chairman.
His election makes Madikizela the favourite to succeed his close ally, Helen Zille, as provincial premier in 2019.
He will now need to deal with a falling out between Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille and mayoral committee member JP Smith as well as a growing controversy over municipal spending on De Lille's private home in Pinelands...
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