Tshwane: will it kill GNU?

COUNCIL COUP: ANC, ACTIONSA, EFF JOIN FORCES TO BLOCK CILLIERS BRINK'S RE-ELECTION

- Marizka Coetzer

» DA is breaking off talks to stabilise local govt, says Steenhuisen.

Angry at being stabbed in the back by the ActionSA alliance with the EFF and the "Lesufi faction" of the ANC in the election of Tshwane's new mayor, the DA "has broken off all discussions with the ANC relating to local government until the Tshwane matter is resolved", says DA leader John Steenhuisen.

After the Tshwane council voted to elect ActionSA's Nasiphi Moya as mayor to replace the DA's Cilliers Brink, who was ousted in a motion of no confidence earlier this month, Steenhuisen said:

"The treachery by ActionSA in its alignment with the EFF and the Lesufi faction, who are clearly opposed to the GNU and seek to damage it, has led to the situation in Tshwane.