Around 30 ANC members and an ANC Msunduzi councillor from KZN have left the party to join the DA, with just over a month to go before the local government elections.
The DA faced speed bumps in its election campaign this week, after two of its members were hijacked at gunpoint on Monday night just outside Richmond, an area west of the Durban central business district.
The DA members were travelling in a vehicle used for campaign purposes, which the unknown assailants set alight. The driver and passenger were tied up and forced to lie face-down.The party said the province had a poor history of political tolerance, as the incident came a week after another member from the eThekwini region was attacked.
“This incident was extremely traumatic for the DA staff members involved. The DA condemns in the strongest this type of barbaric behaviour and questions those involved and their motives behind the incident. “A case with the SAPS has been opened and we call on the law enforcement agency to immediately proceed with an investigation and bring those perpetrators to book,” the DA said.
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