ActionSA presents former DA chair Athol Trollip as new member
Former Democratic Alliance (DA) Eastern Cape leader Athol Trollip is going green.
He is now a member of ActionSA.
The party's leader Herman Mashaba had teased supporters over the weekend on Twitter, offering a party shirt if they correctly guessed which individual would be joining the fledgling party.
At a press conference in Gqebera on Wednesday morning, Trollip spoke fondly about his 25 years as a representative of the DA in parliament and as the Gqeberha mayor after the 2016 elections.
He resigned in 2019, together with former DA leader Mmusi Maimane.
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"My change in conviction or lose in conviction from my former party will no doubt be maligned as of others been maligned who have left that party to join ActionSA. I expect them to happen. It is inevitable in politics.
"One thing I am not going to do, though, is to malign my former political parties. You can't serve something and build something for 25-years and then suddenly malign it.
"To me, that will be completely unethical and disrespectful to my relationship that I had with them."
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