Johnathan Paoli
THE Western Cape High Court has rejected the EFF’s urgent application to force Parliament to allow its barred MPs, including CIC Julius Malema, his deputy Floyd Shivamb and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, from attending the State of the Nation Address (SONA) next week.
The EFF MPs were banned from setting foot in Parliament following their participation in a disruption of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2023 SONA.
In November, Parliament’s Powers and Privileges Committee ordered EFF MPs to apologise to Ramaphosa, National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, Parliament and the public as well as having one month’s salary docked in February.
The party’s entire leadership have been suspended for the entire month of February in addition to being charged with a cost order by the court on Tuesday.
Judge Nathan Erasmus criticised the late filing of papers by the Red Berets, and said that it was their own doing, before he made his
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