The wife of DA parliamentary leader, Mmusi Maimane has taken to social media to support her husband amid rumours of a sex scandal within the party.<\/p>\n
In a tweet from her account, she called her husband “the real deal”.<\/p>\n
An e-mail penned under the name “Tom Jeffries” has been sent allegedly by a woman who says she is one of several colleagues used by men in the DA as “playthings\u201d.<\/p>\n
The email, according to its writer, is a warning to delegates to not put the wrong people in leadership.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am one such person and despite raising my concerns I was brushed aside by a system that protects men that use their power to get away with the worst misogyny against women,\u201d it reads, before accusing a host of prominent DA MPs and office bearers of extra-marital affairs.<\/p>\n
Mmusi Maimane, his contender, James Wilmot as well Athol Trollip, who is running for federal chairmanship, on Saturday collectively rejected allegations of a culture of crude sexual harassment within the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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