Retrenchments loom as DA restructures

The DA’s highest decision-making structure, its federal executive, has decided to retrench some party employees, in a move described as creating “a structure that is more suited” to the party’s current needs.

In an internal email, dated Tuesday, May 26, circulated to party employees, the party’s federal council chairperson, Helen Zille, indicates that, following a review process by the federal executive, a decision, although “painful”, had been deemed “necessary” to “restructure” the organisation.

“Please be advised that the federal executive ... has decided to initiate a section 189A restructuring process in terms of Labour Relations Act,” reads the email.