South Africa’s main opposition party in a leadership crisis as three leaders resign in one week

SOUTH AFRICA - Report 24 Oct 2019 by Iraj Abedian

South Africa’s main opposition party is the Democratic Alliance (DA), and yesterday its leader, Mmusi Maimane, resigned as party leader. His resignation follows this week’s earlier resignation by DA’s Herman Mashaba as mayor of Johannesburg (the country’s most prosperous region), of which the DA had gained leadership through a coalition with the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) following the 2016 municipal elections.

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