Ex-DA official attacks party in resignation e-mail

A FORMER DA administrator has written a scathing resignation e-mail, alleging people in the party had been left humiliated, demoralised and racially discriminated against.

Alvezo Fortuin, who resigned yesterday from the party’s office in North End, sent the e-mail to DA councillors and officials in the Eastern Cape.

“The team in the Eastern Cape is no longer the formidable team that I once knew, mainly, because they will be victimised, publicly humiliated, demoralised and racially discriminated against,” he wrote.

DA provincial leader Nqaba Bhanga countered with: “I’m the leader of the DA in the Eastern Cape and I’m a black man. There’s no way I would ever accept for anyone to be racially discriminated against.

“I fight for fairness and when I became leader of the party I said there’d be fairness in appointing and promoting staff.”

Bhanga said the DA would not tolerate ill-discipline and disrespect from people in the party.

“There’s nothing that was not done to try to assist and empower Alvezo but he’s reached a point of trying to discredit the DA,” Bhanga said.

In the e-mail, Fortuin described himself as a broken man and said after working for the party for six years he had had enough.

“I am not sure [if] this letter will make any difference but at least I know I have tried to inform the leadership of the situation,” he wrote.

Fortuin declined to comment further.