CoJ councilor Lincoln Machaba resigns from DA and calls party ‘Freedom Front Minus’



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Machaba told Eyewitness News that he would join Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA political movement, and said the district attorney has made it clear that he no longer wishes to remain in centrist politics but to pursue a right-wing ideology.

Lincoln Machaba. Image: Instagram

JOHANNESBURG – A few days after the Democratic Alliance (DA) elected John Steenhuisen as its leader, a Johannesburg city councilor and regional youth leader Lincoln Machaba resigned, calling the party “Freedom Front Minus.”

Machaba has been said Eyewitness news that he would join Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA political movement, saying that the district attorney had made it clear that he no longer wanted to remain in centrist politics, but to pursue a right-wing ideology.

He also said that it was clear at this weekend’s election conference that the DA was abandoning the idea of ​​diversity or even building a party capable of taking on the government of the African National Congress (ANC).

The opposition party has been criticized for electing nine officials, of whom only two are black and two are women.

He said the DA has been negatively affected by a lackluster performance in last year’s polls.

“It’s as if the DA has become the Freedom Front Minus, in the sense that instead of being the central liberal party that it claims to be, it changes shape based on the results of the last elections and then attacks or targets a group. particular racial at the expense of the other. “

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