Soweto-based ActionSA Councillor Mandla Nyaqela and five of the party's branch chairpersons and members have defected to the Democratic Alliance (DA) and were welcomed into the blue party on Thursday by DA Johannesburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille.
https://www.polity.org.za/article/da-welcomes-members-from-dictatorship-actionsa-2026-02-26