ActionSA’s Tshwane councillor and MMC for Human Settlements, Abel Tau, has been fired from the party.
Tau asked to be placed on temporary suspension last month in the wake of the allegations that he attempted to rape the wife of his friend, who is also an ActionSA member.
Sex scandal claims
ActionSA on Thursday announced that its senate – the party’s highest decision-making body – resolved during a meeting on Wednesday evening to terminate Tau’s membership in the party.
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This after the senate deliberated on recommendations of the disciplinary panel that was convened to consider the charges levelled against the MMC, who was also ActionSA’s Gauteng provincial secretary.
“The panel, chaired by Advocate Gill Benson, heard evidence from a number of witnesses in the matter, but determined that the charges relating to alleged criminal conduct would be more appropriately dealt with in the courts.
“The senate specifically looked at the conduct of Tau and concluded that his conduct was inconsistent with ActionSA’s value of ethical leadership,” ActionSA’s national chairperson Michael Beaumont said in a statement.
This is a developing story. More to follow.
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