Emma Powell Steps Down As Das International Relations Spokesperson

DA MP Emma Powell has resigned as the party's spokesperson on international relations.

Powell said in defending South Africa's constitutional values on the international stage she has been threatened, intimidated, harassed and illegally surveilled.

Driven by my commitment to the DAs foundational principles, I accepted these risks as the unavoidable cost of standing up to and exposing Dirco department of international relations co-operation and the ANCs relationships with authoritarian regimes, she said in a statement.

Over the past two-and-a-half years, I have travelled the world on behalf of my party, first as shadow minister and later as national spokesperson, speaking out against some of the most repressive and brutal regimes in the world.

Many of these regimes are more closely enmeshed with government leaders and the department of international relations co-operation than the public realises, she said.