Brett Herrron has recently attacked the DA, accusing them of “constitutional delinquency”. This concerns an attempt by the DA to push their councillors to seek putting the municipality under administration after the ANC formed a minority government there with ICOSA.

Anton Bredell was recorded imploring their councillors to initiate this process to collapse the corrupt local coalition, and was taken to the Public Protector. Winde's defense efforts were also censured. Financial constraints reportedly led to the Public Protector's decision not to oppose the review application.

But according to DA spokesman Wouter Kriel,

"The matter was heard by Judge Savage on an unopposed basis and both the Bredell and Winde reports were set aside and substituted with a decision dismissing the complaints of Herron made to the Public Protector. Whilst it is disappointing that frivolous complaints lodged by Herron led to the waste of taxpayer money, it should be celebrated that the Rule of Law was ultimately upheld."

The revelation that their unopposed review application on the 2021 incident will proceed, with no opposition from the Public Protector, has ignited a war of words.

Herron, in a scathing press release, decried the financial constraints as a means for Winde and Bredell to sidestep accountability, drawing parallels with ANC tactics. He accused them of employing delay tactics and legal technicalities, likening their strategy to the “Stalingrad Defence” of Jacob Zuma.

Herron's criticism extends to the Office of the Public Protector, arguing that its inability to defend decisions renders it toothless, bordering on wasteful expenditure.

However, Herron’s failure to make timeous application to the court has made his comments impotent.