Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille has defended herself for hanging up on a CapeTalk 567 radio interviewer.
|||Cape Town - Patricia de Lille has defended herself for hanging up on radio interviewer Afrika Melane on CapeTalk 567 this on Monday morning.
De Lille was being interviewed about the city council plan to bestow the freedom of Cape Town on US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle when she was asked about allegations of a rift in the mayoral committee, and with senior staffers in her administration. Instead of answering, she hung up.
Asked to explain, her office said she had ended the call “as she had stepped out of an important meeting in order to discuss Obama and did not have time to address this issue, which had not been agreed to in any event”.
On the allegations against her, De Lille said: “I will not respond to faceless allegations”.
Cape Argus