Funzela Ngobeni has left the DA to be part of his former boss’s new movement, the People’s Dialogue
Funzela Ngobeni, the DA’s regional chair in Johannesburg, has jumped ship and joined the political movement of his erstwhile boss, former mayor Herman Mashaba.
Ngobeni’s resignation comes two months before the DA is set to go to its early national congress in May and just more than a year before the local government elections. DA Gauteng leader John Moodey said the DA in the province was surprised when the “bombshell” resignation was dropped on them. Ngobeni said in his resignation letter to the caucus and the party’s regional executive that he had no intention of dwelling on “too much negativity” as party members were already battling to come to terms with the trajectory the party had recently taken.
“I trust and hope that you will continue to not only hold the ANC accountable in council, but to also steadfastly defend our pro-poor agenda and all the gains we made in the three years we were in government,” Ngobeni told the DA.
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