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De Lille’s disciplinary hearing to go ahead as planned: DA

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Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille says she will sleep easy tonight ahead of her disciplinary hearing on Tuesday.
And the DA says everything is in place for its Federal Council to go ahead with proceedings.

De Lille is ready for her disciplinary hearing, insisting that, as a public representative, the matter should be open to the public and that she’s ready to go to court if needs be.

On Monday, De Lille symbolically handed over just over two hectares of land to 37 claimants who were removed in the 1960s at function in Rondesch East.

In an interview with the SABC, De Lille said she had been calling on the DA to clear her name for a long time. She  insists that the hearing be open to the media and the public.

De Lille says, “The first issue will be – we want a list of witnesses, we want to know all of those charges. Because in the Steenhuizen report, which is taken to the High Court for review, in that report, there are no names of people, there are no complaints against me, there are no surnames, there are no actual dates. So I was actually found guilty on issues which I’ve never been afforded an opportunity to state my case, but I am hell bent. Like they are hell bent on getting rid of me, I’m hell bent on clearing my name and restoring the reputational damage they have done to me.”

Meanwhile, the chairperson of the DA’s Federal Executive, James Selfe, says the disciplinary hearing against de Lille will go ahead with or without her on Tuesday, Saying De Lille’s case is an internal party matter.

Selfe says De Lille will face charges of, among other things, misconduct relating to her role as leader and maladministration in the city of Cape Town.

“We are a voluntary organisation, we have a constitution, we have rules of practice. Those rules of practice and constitution were in place when Patricia de Lille became a member. She served on the federal executive for many years, she was aware of what the rules were. So I don’t understand why she now wants to change the rules but be that as it may, the ordinary position is that these things are in private. She needs to make a case to the panel that they should be in public. The panel will hear that argument and will make its judgement when the panel meets tomorrow,” he said.

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