By Lebone Rodah Mosima
Democratic Alliance MP Dean Macpherson has accused ActionSA of ignoring a dismissed claim that he called its supporters “hobos” and defended his decision to challenge Parliament’s Ethics Committee finding against him in court.
Macpherson’s comments came after ActionSA accused him of trying to avoid accountability by taking the findings of Parliament’s Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests on review.
The dispute stems from a finding that Macpherson breached the MPs’ Code of Ethical Conduct after referring to ActionSA supporters as “amaphara” outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court on 24 July 2025.
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The committee found the remark to be derogatory and discriminatory, and recommended that Macpherson be reprimanded in the National Assembly and apologise in the House.
The National Assembly adopted the committee’s report on 11 June 2026, with the DA dissenting.
Macpherson said on Wednesday that
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