15th of May 2018 JUSTICE HAS PREVAILED – AUNTY PAT IS BACK AS THE MAYOR OF CAPE TOWN Dear supporters of this petition Thank you for your continued support. Our petition now stands at 1,817 supporters and growing each day. We are ale relieved to hear that Mayor De Lille has been restored as the Mayor of Cape Town. Charles Cilliers writes the following article on the court ruling re-instating De Lille as Mayor of Cape Town: “Patricia de Lille has been reinstated temporarily as the Cape Town mayor pending internal disciplinary processes by the DA against her. Delivering judgment in the Cape Town high court, Judge Patrick Gamble has found that Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille should not have had her membership of the DA terminated. Her expulsion from the DA has therefore been reversed, and she is therefore temporarily still Cape Town’s executive mayor. Gamble said the preservation of the status quo before the DA federal executive determination was the only available remedy. The next part of the legal saga happens on 25 May. The leadership of South Africa’s second city has become a power struggle within the DA, the country’s main opposition party, ahead of national elections next year. In court, De Lille challenged the party’s decision to strip her of the mayoral job and her party membership a week ago over alleged mismanagement and corruption. Cape Town has been battling a drought, flash floods and high crime rate. Gamble ruled in her favour, saying “the first respondent will remain mayor” and continue in the job she has held since 2011. The decision was a fast-track ruling, which will be followed by a full hearing on May 25. The DA reacted angrily, accusing De Lille of being a bully who was “clinging onto power”. “De Lille has displayed the utmost disdain for the office… as evidenced by the serious evidence of maladministration and unethical leadership,” it added. De Lille told reporters that she would go back to her office and continue work. “It is not all about me. I keep thinking about the people of Cape Town. Therefore we must now bring this to an end,” she said. She still faces a motion of no confidence in council. The party’s federal chairperson said last week that the DA constitution provided, in section 3.5.1.2, that: “A member ceases to be a member when he or she publicly declares his or her intention to resign and/or publicly declares his or her resignation from the Party.” The DA announced last week that De Lille’s membership has been terminated because, during a radio interview last month with Eusebius McKaiser on 702, she had indicated that she intended to resign from the party after clearing her name. The judge summed up De Lille’s argument for bringing the court challenge by saying, among other things, that she claims she had never said she intended to resign from the DA, only as Cape Town’s mayor. She pointed out that other DA members had made similar statements that were not acted on in a similar way. She raised other technical and constitutional points. The DA, however, pointed out that De Lille’s exact quote on McKaiser’s show had expressed that she intended to quit the DA, and not only as Cape Town’s mayor. They also challenged each of her other points, including that she had suffered any irreparable harm, which the court accepted. On the matter of an interdict or another halt to the acting mayor’s ability to change the city’s mayoral committee, the DA submitted that it would not be practical or realistic to subject the running of the city to what could turn out to be a protracted legal battle and process. The judge said that even though her membership was guaranteed by his ruling, she would still need to subject herself to internal party discipline and the expectations of being the executive mayor would still be upon her. He made no immediate ruling on costs. Speaking outside court, De Lille said she was tired, but that it was important to return to good governance and end the fight for the good of the people of Cape Town.” SOURCES https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1927091/1patricia-de-lilles-da-expulsion-reversed-in-court/ https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-05-15-de-lille-bounces-back-as-cape-town-mayor/ Be Blessed Kind Regards Pastor Louis Michael Green Petition Initiator of the “STOP THE DA FROM OUSTING PATRICIA DE LILLE AS MAYOR OF CAPE TOWN” Petition Kraaifontein The Western Cape Province South Africa Email: louisgreen69@gmail.com