Mbali Ntuli walks away from the Democratic Alliance, a party she has called home for close to 15 years and a career she has built from the ground up. tshidi_lee
JOHANNESBURG - Democratic Alliance member of the provincial legislature and taxi owner Mbali Ntuli has called it quits. She becomes yet another prominent young black politician to express a loss of confidence in the country’s second-largest political party.
"To my colleagues, I want to sincerely thank you for contributing to my journey and learning over the last 15 years. I joined the DA when I was 19 and was organising on campus.
During her time at the “blue party” Ntuli ruffled feathers and challenged leadership at every turn, including her failed bid to become the party’s federal leader in 2020. "My colleagues in the DA know better than most the difficult and relentless challenges I have faced in the party, in part because so many have played out in the public domain, but also because our party is not immune to gossip. I don’t wish to rehash any of these challenges, which are publicly known and have been raised internally on numerous occasions.