Johnathan Paoli
IN a media briefing on the 20th Central Command Team meeting held in Kempton Park on Sunday, EFF President Julius Malema announced the immediate recall of 210 members who were previously banned from attending the 10th Anniversary Rally earlier this year.
This follows the CCT having received the final report of EFF Public Representatives who failed to organise for and pay for transport of their constituencies to attend the EFF 10th Anniversary.
Malema said that the CCT are recalling the members in line with section 14, subsections 9 and 10, which entitles the CCT to recall incompetent members from any position; and that the decision was taken in order to save the alleged culprits from possible expulsion.
The CIC said that the EFF expects all of its leaders to be proficient in several areas with the ability to effectively organise, mobilise, educate, agitate and fund-raise for all activities of the organisation.
He further said that the absence of these qualities would result in the untrustworthiness of the party to effectively assist the lives of South African people and engagement with the violence of the white monopoly establishment.
Malema said that they would remain members of the EFF and could still contribute, and he saved them from possibly more disadvantageous consequences of other disciplinary measures.
“If they are loyal to the cause for economic freedom in our lifetime, the EFF Members who are recalled from deployments and removed from elected structures will remain as members of the organisation but will not be eligible for deployments back to structures they were recalled from. Removing them, and having them remain part of the organisation, is part of their rehabilitation,” the CIC said.
The members were banned from the party’s anniversary following their failure to organise adequate transport in the form of buses to convey members to the FNB Stadium for the celebrations.
This recall means that all councilors, MPLs and MPs who failed to organise for and pay for buses to the 10th Anniversary Celebrations must resign from positions of their deployment with immediate effect.
The list includes MPs Phiwaba Madokwe, Vusi Khoza, Brenda Mathevula and Slindile Luthuli who represent the party in the National Council of Provinces.
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