Johnathan Paoli
THE National Assembly on Tuesday night debated and adopted the report of the powers and privileges committee, which recommended the suspension of six EFF leaders including its CIC Julius Malema, Floyd Shivambu and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.
In addition, the report recommended the docking of one month’s salary for the six MPs and a public apology to President Cyril Ramaphosa in person for disrupting his State of the Nation Address (SONA) in February this year.
In its findings the committee, chaired by ANC’s Violet Siwela, found that all six members were guilty.
The initiator, advocate Anton Katz, had proposed that they be banned from Parliament for 10 days until after the 2024 Sona, on February 8.
Siwela said the EFF members had disobeyed the instructions of the Speaker to stop disrupting Ramaphosa.
Parties welcomed the adoption with NFP’s Shaik Emam accusing the party of turning Parliament into a circus.
While
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