DA’s Gwen Ngwenya declines MP position
The party's former head of policy wants to focus on policy and tech.
The DA’s MP and Head of Policy Gwen Ngwenya speaks in Randburg about land expropriation.
Former head of policy in the Democratic Alliance Gwen Ngwenya has declined her seat in Parliament as per the party’s candidate list.
She shared her decision in a tweet sent out on Thursday morning stating that she’d prefer to work “on issues at the nexus of tech and public policy”.
https://twitter.com/GwenNgwenya/status/1128953960759480321
Ngwenya made headlines last year after she resigned as the DA’s policy head but chose to stay on in the party a month before they were set to unveil their manifesto.
She shared her frustrations in a detailed resignation letter sent to DA leader Mmusi Maimane in which she listed various operational and political stumbling blocks that led to her resignation.
According to Ngwenya, she received little feedback on her policy proposals since being appointed the party’s head of policy at the beginning of 2018.
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