DA to suspend defecting councillors’ membership

THE DA is to suspend the membership of two Ekurhuleni PR councillors after they publicly defected to the ANC at the DA’s Real Jobs March in the Johannesburg CBD.

John Moodey , DA provincial leader, has confirmed the planned suspension of David Veli Mosehla and Stephen Shabalala as DA members.

The defection comes after a recent guilty verdict in a disciplinary against Mosehla and the underperformance of Shabalala.

Moodey said given the ANC’s response to the march it was a better fit for these two councillors to move to an organisation that had no regard for democracy and the rule of law.