Chairperson, I give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that a few days after the elections the Democratic Alliance, DA, in Tshwane has been hit by serious allegations of racism, with black members claiming marginalisation and ill-treatment by white party leaders;
2) further notes that this incident follows a petition drafted by disgruntled DA members and the party's chief whip, Derek Fleming, who spoke against racism in the DA and the ill-treatment of black members and candidates amid claims that the party's regional leader, Brandon Topham, is sympathetic to "white racists" in the party; and
3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms the abuse of our people by a party that exploits the conditions facing our people by promising positions, food parcels and houses when they vote for the DA, only to ill-treat them and subject them to repulsive racial slurs and bigoted treatment.