An unlikely collaboration has been formed between the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad), in a bid to tackle gang violence and drug abuse across the city. The United Front Against Gangsterism and Drugs (UFAGAD), will seek to mobilize various other NGO’s, civil societies, and[…]
The Economic Freedom Fighters will go to court to oppose looming suspension from Parliament for disrupting presidential question time last week, party leader Julius Malema said on Thursday. All 25 EFF MPs in the National Assembly were responding to Speaker Baleka Mbete’s letters of warning with help from lawyers and[…]
A claim that the ANC bussed a group to Parliament to assault EFF MPs was “laughable and desperate”, the governing party’s Chief Whip Stone Sizani said on Wednesday. “Such a claim can only be an invention of an overzealous imagination and an uncreative publicity strategy probably aimed at diverting attention[…]
The EFF accused the ANC of organising a group to assault its MPs in Parliament on Wednesday. “The Economic Freedom Fighters has learned that the ANC is mobilising hooligans in the townships of Cape Town to come and assault EFF MPs today in Parliament,” party spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said. “The[…]
National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete is considering the suspension of Economic Freedom Fighters MPs who disrupted questions to President Jacob Zuma last Thursday. “I have to inform the House that the matter is being referred to the Powers and Privileges Committee in terms of rule 194,” Mbete told MPs at[…]
The EFF’s disruption of proceedings in the National Assembly on Thursday was tantamount to bringing Parliament into disrepute, government said in a statement on Friday. “Yesterday’s [Thursday] militant confrontation and attitude between MPs and supporters of political parties were not in the best interest of the country and were futile,”[…]
The Economic Freedom Fighters has defended its “staged protest” which caused a disruption in the National Assembly. Party spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi named three reasons for the protest in parliament on Thursday. “President [Jacob] Zuma did not respond to the public protector’s report and directive that public money was spent in[…]
The second anniversary of the shooting at Lonmin’s Marikana mine, near Rustenburg in the North West was commemorated on Saturday at the koppie where miners were shot. Leaders from opposition parties, attending the rally, criticised government for not helping to change the lives of the mining community in Marikana. Economic[…]
The Gauteng legislature has laid criminal charges against members of the Economic Freedom Fighters, the legislature said on Wednesday. “We have opened charges of trespassing, damage to property, and intimidation,” said Hlengiwe Bhengu, acting secretary to the legislature. The case was opened in Johannesburg on Tuesday night. She said the[…]
Police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse defiant members of the Economic Freedom Fighters at the Gauteng legislature in Johannesburg on Tuesday evening. Stun grenades were thrown inside the foyer of the Gauteng legislature where EFF leader Julius Malema and others were refusing to move. A Sapa multi-media reporter,[…]
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