8 April 2011
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Matters in the DA in Limpopo can get government politics. He has only made ugly, if disgruntled members of the par- it into the number five spot on the candity continue to make slanderous allega- dates’ list for the elections. tions against the provincial leader of the In Phalaborwa Mr Roelof du Plooy, DA, Ms Desiree van der Walt. currently a serving councillor, There clearly is a relatively has for all practical purposes high degree of discontent also been eliminated. Du Plooy about nominations for the has written a letter to DA leadcoming municipal elections. er Helen Zille. He has also cirVan der Walt is being accused culated this letter to third parof having manipulated nomities and wrote at least another nations in at least Polokwane, letter which he circulated. Tzaneen and Phalaborwa. In his letters Du Plooy is more She is also being accused of than likely to have overstepped favouritism and it is said that the borders of defamation. Van der Walt her management style is autoVan der Walt confirmed in an cratic and unacceptable. interview with the Bulletin earlier this In the process several members of the week that she does not see herself as beparty’s “old guard” in the province have ing beyond criticism or being perfect in decided to retire from local government. all her doings. However, she is not preOne such person is Mr Mars de Klerk of pared to be accused of having manipuPolokwane. Four other senior DA coun- lated the nominations process. cillors have also decided to retire. He She has already discussed Du Plooy’s has a remarkable 29 years experience in letters with her legal advisers. “I will local government. keep my options open and legal action De Klerk, a lawyer and also a previous may follow,” she said. mayor of the province’s capital, says Van In the meanwhile the Musina commuder Walt is an extremely hard worker, nity’s DA supporters are upset about the but he finds her management style hard late registration of a candidate in their to cope with. town. The result is simply that the DA In Tzaneen the party’s current caucus will not have a councillor in Musina for leader in the GTM and a member of the the next five years— something that has GTM’s exco, Mr Graham McComb, has happened in a number of other places to also decided to retire from third tier other parties, including the ANC.
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