The special council meeting to hear the six motions brought by the opposition, including the vote of no confidence against Mayor Athol Trollip, collapsed on Thursday morning.
Speaker Jonathan Lawack adjourned the meeting after council erupted into chaos following an altercation between EFF leader Zilindile Vena and member of the mayoral committee for roads and transport Rano Kayser
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EFF leader Julius Malema says Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Athol Trollip will not finish his five year term.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has vowed to remove the mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Athol Trollip before the end of his term.
Malema told hundreds of EFF supporters who attended the party’s rally on Wednesday, a day prior to the voting on a no-confidence against Trollip which was postponed to a future date
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CAPE TOWN – Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malemahas told supporters that the red berets will not stop until Athol Trollip is removed as Nelson Mandela Bay mayor.
Malema is addressing a rally in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth on Wednesday evening, ahead of Thursday’s motion of no confidence debate
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Commander in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema, said what happens to the land once it is expropriated is nobody else’s business.
Malema said the EFF would not be blackmailed and threatened by anybody, as the wheels of expropriation without compensation have already been set in motion. He said there was nothing they could say or do to deter them from that goal
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The EFF notes and welcomes the Life Esidimeni arbitration outcome delivered by the now retired Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke. The arbitration outcome vindicates all the families who lost their loved ones, civil society and opposition parties who stood up when it was not fashionable to call out the the ANC government implementing the ill-conceived, corrupt and greed driven plan that resulted in the death of 144 patients.
The EFF also welcomes the decisive position taken by Justice Moseneke that those involved must be held accountable, and we call on all authorities such as the South African Police Services (SAPS) and the HPCSA (Health Professional Council of South Africa) to carry out their investigation with due diligence to ensure that those who violated the law are charged and prosecuted accordingly
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The Western Cape Prime Minister, Helen Zille, whose party is in various coalitions with the EFF, has gone on social media against Julius Malema regarding his unbridled racism.
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As South Africa enters an era where expropriation without compensation needs to be approached delicately, the EFF have already thrown a spanner in the works, by orchestrating land grabs on Gauteng farms.
As reported, EFF Gauteng chairperson Mandisa Mashego confirmed that a group of citizens illegally occupying land across the province were representatives of the red berets
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JOHANNESBURG – Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says he welcomes discussions with parties who differ with him on the land expropriation without compensation matter.
This follows King Goodwill Zwelithini’s call for government to stop expropriating land under the Ingonyama Trust to which he is a sole trustee.
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Pretoria – Hundreds of “unhappy” security guards took to the streets of the capital to march against exploitation, poor working conditions and unlawful deductions from salaries on Tuesday morning.
The security guards, AFFILIATED to the Academic and Professional Staff Association, came from as far as Bronkhorstspruit and Johannesburg are planned to march to different head offices of organisations that use Apsa security guards.
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Cape Town – On Tuesday, the National Assembly will decide whether to proceed with a process to amend the Constitution to make expropriation of land without compensation possible, as the EFF’s motion in this regard is expected to be debated.
The draft resolution, brought by Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema, states that “South Africa has a unique history of brutal dispossession of land from black people by the settler colonial white minority” and continues that this has left an “indelible mark on social, political and economic landscape of the country, and has helped create a society based on exploitation of black people and sustenance of white domination”.
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Durban – Political interference in the country’s law enforcement agencies is the greatest counter-argument to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s declaration of a “new dawn”, the Economic Freedom Fighters said on Friday.
“It is the greatest threat to our democracy at the moment,” party spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi told the Moerane Commission sitting in Mayville, Durban.
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Cape Town – President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation of Address (SONA) has received mixed reviews from opposition parties, with somearties give mixed rev welcoming his efforts to deal with corruption and reducing the size of government departments.
Ramaphosa gave his first SONA without any interruptions from opposition benches on Friday night.
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Julius Malema‚ once one of Jacob Zuma’s biggest supporters‚ has called out the president on what he says is a lie.
Talking on national television‚ Zuma said he was one of those who said Thabo Mbeki should not be recalled, “I was saying we should not recall comrade Mbeki because it will set a bad precedent. Of course I was defeated by the majority.”
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Parliament – Speaker Baleka Mbete on Monday turned down a request by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) to bring forward the debate on their latest motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma as he resists pressure from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to resign.
“The Speaker has responded in the negative,” an opposition source said.
Mbete had scheduled the vote on the motion for the February 22, the day after the government is due to table the national budget for 2018.
But the EFF asked for it to take place earlier after a week of talks between Zuma and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa failed to bring the embattled president to resign.
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Opposition parties are discussing a joint plan to push the ANC into recalling President Jacob Zuma- including a call for their supporters to take to the streets.
The UDM’s Bantu Holomisa flighted the possibility‚ saying: “#RemoveZumaMarch. South Africans‚ let’s discuss the possibility of taking to the streets on 22 February 2018‚ the day of Zuma’s vote of no confidence in Parliament. We can’t rely on a divided ANC.”
“We must never forget that it has never been the ANC’s plan to remove Zuma‚ hence they are pussyfooting‚” said Holomisa. “In fact we should scrap the state of the nation address (Sona) altogether to avoid a double wastage. Let’s rather focus on the budget and the no confidence debate on Zuma.”
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