Another blow to DA as Mashaba's ActionSA snaps up senior DA leader
Former DA member and now ActionSA president Herman Mashaba continues to haunt his former party after snapping up another top leader who resigned from the DA and joined his party.
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Former DA member and now ActionSA president Herman Mashaba continues to haunt his former party after snapping up another top leader who resigned from the DA and joined his party.
ActionSA's streak of poaching DA members continues and this time the party has bagged the latter's former Gauteng North regional deputy chair, Michael Shackleton.
Today I am pleased to announce that Michael Shackleton, the DA’s Gauteng North Regional Deputy Chairperson, has resigned from the Democratic Alliance to join ActionSA. Michael is 34 years old, and yet, has already risen to the rank of Deputy Chairperson of the Tshwane Region. He has served as a member of the National Assembly, a member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature as Shadow MEC for Community Safety and as a Tshwane City Councillor.
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.
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