Liam Jacobs, a DA MP, has defected to the PA.
Jacobs says he has not been promised any positions. He said he had left the DA because he said the party was obsessed with holding onto power in the Western Cape, and not fixing the country’s problems.
The 24-year-old Jacobs was quoted as saying: “I have come home to the PA because what Gayton said hit me hard this week after our portfolio committee meeting. I knew I was being used. A big thank you to president McKenzie and all the patriots who have accepted me with open arms and love. Wherever the president wants me to be, whatever work he has for me, I am ready. I have been promised nothing, except the chance to be part of the fastest growing party in South Africa, and to make a contribution to fighting for the people, instead of fighting the people who have been fighting for young people like me.”