Cape Argus

De Lille has no ‘right’ to be mayor

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IT CONCERNS me that Patricia de Lille has launched the lame claim: “I have got rights, the party has rights, everyone has rights – you can’t just trample on someone’s rights.”

If you are elected chairman of a football club, it is certainly up to the members to decide if they want to replace you as chairman.

How does that violate her human rights?

According to the law, the mayor of a South African city is elected by a ballot in local parliament.

How come the DA did not try to oust the mayor by way of a no confidence vote? That would be a democratic­ally authorised and fair procedure.

Neither De Lille nor the always tricky opposition ANC pursued this legal route.

Instead, a court of law (the third pillar of democratic power) was asked to decide if she is to remain in power. A very strange new South Africa indeed.

HORST LINDSTEDT Vredehoek

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