Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille on Wednesday posted a series of tweets claiming that a DA regional executive statement that a DA caucus has recommended her removal as mayor is not true, and doesn't "represent the City of Cape Town DA caucus, because they never met".
De Lille said the regional executive, chaired by Grant Twigg, was meant to represent DA branches as well as DA members –– and therefore needed to provide proof of when they met with the branches, and what mandate they received from the branches.
The Regional Executive chaired by Grant Twigg is meant to represent DA branches as well as DA members. The Regional Executive therefore needs to provide the proof of when they met with the branches and what mandate they received from the branches.
— Patricia de Lille (@PatriciaDeLille) January 10, 2018
Twigg, the DA's Cape Town Metro leader, was on Tuesday morning quoted by the Cape Argus as saying that De Lille had "lost the confidence of the metro executive, the relevant political authority" and that therefore, a caucus believes the city "requires stability, unity and functionality" that De Lille "cannot deliver".