Tony Leon, Resolve Communications chairperson and former DA leader, is accused of exposing the party's ministers to business pressure to change policies.
There might be nothing legally wrong about capitalists influencing ministers to change government policies to suit their business interests as they spend millions of rand funding political parties to achieve that, but the DA has lost its moral high ground, said political analyst Zakhele Ndlovu.
Ndlovu, from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, said the DA can no longer claim the moral high ground regarding clean governance and transparency following a revelation by its former leader, John Steenhuisen.
In a recent interview with News24, Steenhuisen revealed that DA ministers within the Government of National Unity (GNU) faced pressure from specific business interests to alter policies.
He noted that this lobbying targeted several officials, including himself during his tenure as minister of Agriculture, Communication Minister Solly Malatsi, and current Agriculture Minister Willie Aucamp, who previously served as the minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment.
