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Twenty MPs face sanctions after storming the podium in July last year to try to prevent Gordhan from delivering his budget voting speech in a mini-plenary venue.
EFF MPs are expelled during Pravin Gordhan Public Enterprises budget vote. Image: EWN YouTube.
CAPE TOWN – Parliament’s Powers and Privileges Committee postponed hearings of EFF MPs on Tuesday that interrupted Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan’s 2019 budget voting speech.
The party’s 20 MPs face sanction after storming the podium in July last year to try to prevent Gordhan from delivering his department’s budget voting speech.
It is the second time that EFF MPs have confronted the committee after appearing for the first time in 2014 for misconduct when they chanted “give the money back” to former President Jacob Zuma.
On Tuesday, the matter finally went before Parliament’s powers and privileges committee after Parliament received a legal opinion on the matter in September.
Parliament had initially identified 20 EFF MPs implicated in the incident, but that number has now been reduced to 16 members.
However, the committee has received a report from the initiator appointed by Parliament that included correspondence between Parliament and the legal representative of the affected MPs.
The committee was informed that the attorney appointed by the affected members is not available today and may only be available on Wednesday.
But not before EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi criticized the process followed by Parliament.
“So, you are saying that there is no legal representation in front of us, but there is nothing in front of us. You have not read anything, people have written about this matter, these correspondence have not reached us ”.
The accused MPs are expected to appear on Wednesday.
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