DA coughs up R970 000 for its blue lies about Patricia de Lille

20 May 2021

GOOD notes that the DA has quietly paid nearly R1m in court-awarded legal costs for its lies about Patricia de Lille.

The former Mayor of Cape Town was repeatedly forced to turn to the courts to defend her integrity against lies the DA invented to cover up the real reasons she turned her back on the party in 2018.

Four times De Lille had to seek protection from the courts as the DA manufactured one story after another rather than admit the truth that it differed with her agenda to effect social and spatial transformation in the City of Cape Town.

A particular bone of contention was De Lille’s insistence that affordable homes be built for people of colour in inner city areas and formerly whites-only neighbourhoods to begin to integrate the post-apartheid city.

De Lille ultimately resigned on her own terms from her position as Mayor of Cape Town in October 2018, establishing the GOOD Movement to continue the struggle for justice.

Soon after her resignation, the City cancelled all the inner city housing projects she had lined up for implementation.

The courts are still to pass judgement on five defamation cases launched by De Lille and close colleagues, relating to the same period and set of lies.

Lies have short legs but can be very expensive.

Issued by Brett Herron, Secretary General, GOOD, 20 May 2021