Poo-thrower still not welcome in DA party ranks

POO-thrower Loyiso Nkohla is still not welcome to officially join the DA. He has been told he won’t be welcomed into party ranks until the appeal against his sentence for dumping human waste at Cape Town International Airport has been exhausted.

In a letter sent to him last week DA provincial manager Han-marie Marshall-Van Zyl wrote he would not be allowed to vote as a delegate at the party’s provincial elective congress held at the weekend.

Marshall-Van Zyl confirmed in the letter, circulated widely on social media, that Nkohla had applied online for five-year membership to the party. “As this is not in line with the agreement with you, that membership is null and void. Your membership has thus been cancelled,” she wrote.

DA sources said Nkohla wrote to the DA federal executive and it was decided he may not join the DA.

Nkohla is a community liaison officer in the office of mayoral committee member for water and waste services Xanthea Limberg. This does not affect his job as many political appointees are not necessarily active in the DA. Nkohla declined to comment yesterday.

Along with his former Ses’khona comrades, Nkohla protested against poor sanitation in Cape Town’s informal settlements and infamously dumped human waste on the steps of the Western Cape provincial legislature.

Last year DA leader Mmusi Maimane instructed Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille to dismiss Nkohla from his new job in the DA-led City of Cape Town. Maimane has given De Lille until December to get rid of Nkohla. He is still in his job.

The former Cape Town ANC councillor defected to the DA in 2016 with 500 Ses’khona members. He did not take up party membership, owing to his unresolved legal issues.