Mbali Ntuli

Refilwe Moloto speaks to Mbali Ntuli on her resignation from the DA and plans for the future.

Read More Read More Which is why I’m not going to any of them.Mbali Ntuli, former DA member

Mbali Ntuli announced her resignation from the main opposition on Thursday, she had been part of the organisation for almost 15-years.

Ntuli announced her resignation from the main opposition on Thursday, she had been part of the organisation for almost 15 years. Mbali Ntuli announced her resignation from the main opposition on Thursday, she had been part of the organisation for almost 15-years. For her part, Ntuli said she was taking a break from formal politics she’s expected announce her new political direction soon.

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The following year, she was elected first national chairperson of the DA Youth. “It has been clear to me since at least 2014 that there exists an insider and outsider clique in our party. “It was the only province in which the party grew its support in the 2019 elections,” she said. And then, in the 2019 elections, she was tasked to help grow the DA’s support in KwaZulu-Natal in the 2019 elections. This is not uncommon in many organisations, but in a political party the size of the DA, with as many members and moving parts, it is crucial to not allow that cult-like mentality to settle and find a home,” she wrote. In a statement, Ntuli confirmed she tendered her resignation as a member of the DA and member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature.

Mbali Ntuli, who ran against John Steenhuisen for the position of DA leader in 2020, has resigned from the party.

But, she emphasised, there were those in the party that she would be happy to “never see again”. She attended the prestigious Wykeham Collegiate in Pietermaritzburg before obtaining a bachelor of social science degree from Rhodes University, and has also run the family taxi business. People that are basically doing the work of government without the help of government, and in parallel structures in communities. We wish her well as she begins a new chapter in her life journey.” I also didn’t want to be in a position where I constantly had to be calling the party out. Of her desire to empower communities, Ntuli said: “I am going to start an organisation that is going to find change-makers. The DA lost all but one seat in the uMkhanyakude District in 2021, which made her “really emotional”. I do not want to just be comfortable. Steenhuisen secured 79% of the vote. Ntuli told Daily Maverick that her resignation would allow her to pursue her core interest: working alongside communities. Others, such as Bongani Baloyi and Athol Trollip, have joined ActionSA, the new political home of former Johannesburg DA mayor Herman Mashaba. I want to get back to communities, I am feeling very confined where I am now.

The often outspoken former DA leader hopeful, Mbali Ntuli, says she is leaving the party on her own terms.

“There is a space for organisations and civil society and people out of the political realm to start taking that space.” I’ve stood my ground and made my family, parents and communities I served proud of the work we have achieved together,” she said. There is a space for organisations and civil society and people out of the political realm to start taking that space,” she told the Mail & Guardian. She led the DA youth wing and became one of its most recognisable members going up against the ANC Youth League on several media platforms. I didn’t want to be someone raising issues and complaining, I put my hand up to try and make that change. “I have gained platform, network and the time to see how the political system works and how organisations work.

Mbali Ntuli resigned as a DA member and as a member of the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature. Ntuli says the political system in the country angers her. Her ...