Riyaz Patel
Under-fire DA leader Mmusi Maimane says he is preparing for a sustained onslaught from some within his own party’s leadership who are hankering for what he termed “the old DA.”
Maimane grabbed weekend headlines for all the wrong reasons, after a string of reports detailed controversies over his rented home and a donated car he was using.
On Sunday, Rapport revealed Maimane had driven around for months in a car donated to the DA by disgraced former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste after he indicated it would be returned.
That same day, Mike Waters, one of the DA’s three deputy federal chairpersons, demanded to see proof if Maimane was indeed paying his own rent at his R4m Claremont home in Cape Town, the Sunday Times reported.
The embattled DA leader described the revelations as a smear campaign by some Democratic Alliance members who are opposed to the direction he is charting for the
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