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EFF leader Julius Malema. (File, Netwerk24)
The ANC has called EFF leader Julius Malema a “genetically modified revolutionary” and said his comments on Nelson Mandela could not be taken seriously.
Lashing out at the standard of opposition in Parliament, the ANC caucus said in an end-of-the-year statement today that the EFF had achieved nothing of substance this year “other than the vicious efforts to erode and trash important symbols of our democracy including Parliament as a symbol of democratic order and recently Nelson Mandela as a symbol of freedom and reconciliation”.
The ANC was responding to Malema’s comments in the United Kingdom that Mandela was a sellout. Malema later challenged those reports, but stood by the fact that Mandela had compromised the Freedom Charter.
“I don’t belong to a religion called Mandela,” Malema said.
In the statement issued by spokesperson Moloto Mothapo today, the ANC caucus also criticised the DA, accusing it of a “tactically flawed tendency” to stage walkouts at Parliament.
“It is inevitable that the opposition would differ with the majority party. However, that ought to be expressed through the formal process of Parliament rather than walking away.”
The ANC said it was also “disgraceful and outrageous” that DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard had continued to serve in the National Assembly even though the party’s Federal Executive (Fedex) had expelled her.
It warned that if Kohler Barnard was not removed by February, “we will submit our complaint to the ethics committee”.
In terms of the DA’s constitution, a member who appeals a Fedex ruling remains an MP pending the finalisation of the appeals process.
Kohler Barnard’s appeal has been scheduled for January 14 next year.
Championing the ANC’s achievements, the statement said that the ANC had “endeavoured successfully to ensure the continued functionality and effectiveness of the national legislature, despite determined efforts to erode its decorum and collapse it”.
Lashing out at the standard of opposition in Parliament, the ANC caucus said in an end-of-the-year statement today that the EFF had achieved nothing of substance this year “other than the vicious efforts to erode and trash important symbols of our democracy including Parliament as a symbol of democratic order and recently Nelson Mandela as a symbol of freedom and reconciliation”.
The ANC was responding to Malema’s comments in the United Kingdom that Mandela was a sellout. Malema later challenged those reports, but stood by the fact that Mandela had compromised the Freedom Charter.
“I don’t belong to a religion called Mandela,” Malema said.
In the statement issued by spokesperson Moloto Mothapo today, the ANC caucus also criticised the DA, accusing it of a “tactically flawed tendency” to stage walkouts at Parliament.
“It is inevitable that the opposition would differ with the majority party. However, that ought to be expressed through the formal process of Parliament rather than walking away.”
The ANC said it was also “disgraceful and outrageous” that DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard had continued to serve in the National Assembly even though the party’s Federal Executive (Fedex) had expelled her.
It warned that if Kohler Barnard was not removed by February, “we will submit our complaint to the ethics committee”.
In terms of the DA’s constitution, a member who appeals a Fedex ruling remains an MP pending the finalisation of the appeals process.
Kohler Barnard’s appeal has been scheduled for January 14 next year.
Championing the ANC’s achievements, the statement said that the ANC had “endeavoured successfully to ensure the continued functionality and effectiveness of the national legislature, despite determined efforts to erode its decorum and collapse it”.
