Former Member of parliament Phumzile van Damme has terminated Democratic Alliance (DA) membership barely months after stepping down as an MP.
Van Damme made the announcement on her Twitter account on Saturday, 26 June 2021.
I have decided to terminate my DA membership. The misinformation monitoring and combatting project we will be rolling out during election season requires that I be non-partisan. Our plans are at an advanced stage. South Africa, first. Always has been.
— Phumzile Van Damme (@zilevandamme) June 26, 2021
“I have decided to terminate my DA membership. The misinformation monitoring and combatting project we will be rolling out during election season requires that I be non-partisan. Our plans are at an advanced stage. South Africa, first. Always has been,” she said.
Van Damme also stated that no political party, including the DA, will be sparred.
No one will be spared. ANC, DA, EFF, zibanibani noz’banibani. Do behave. pic.twitter.com/9J8Fwh4bQF
— Phumzile Van Damme (@zilevandamme) June 26, 2021
“No one gave me anything, I am where I am because of MY hard work. I didn’t need the DA to survive, I chose it. And now, I’m choosing a new path,” she also said on Twitter.
In May, Van Damme’s resigned as an MP, with some thinking this meant she was leaving the opposition party as well. At the time, she said she was leaving the party and Parliament, due to her unhappiness with a “clique of individuals”.



