ACTIONSA president Herman Mashaba announced on Thursday that the Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) Tshwane regional deputy chairperson Michael Shackleton had joined ActionSA.
Shackleton resigned on April 28 from the DA as a public representative and as a DA member. He served as a DA MP, Member of the Provincial Legislature and a City of Tshwane Councillor.
Shackleton said his resignation arose from a number of things about the DA that had changed.
“It is no longer the party that I joined. However one of the reasons why I resigned is because of how the DA has treated our community since 2016 and now in this by-election,” he said.
Mashaba explained that Shackleton’s reasons for leaving the DA were not dissimilar to those of many others who had left the DA or those who were still attempting to leave the DA.
“Specifically, the reasons cited by Michael Shackleton include the regression of the DA as an inclusive
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