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The party said an investigation by the parliament’s committee on powers and privileges was unfounded because they did not violate rules when they raised points of order objecting to the presence of apartheid president FW de Klerk at Sona in February.
EFF President Julius Malema outside Parliament on February 13, 2020. Image: Kayleen Morgan / EWN
CAPE TOWN – The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has opposed a parliamentary inquiry into its members for disrupting the State of the Nation (SONA) speech earlier this year.
The party said an investigation by Parliament’s committee on powers and privileges was unfounded because they did not violate rules when they raised points of order objecting to the presence of apartheid president FW de Klerk at SONA in February.
But Parliament said it would go ahead with the process to see if the EFF looked down on Parliament.
Parliament’s powers and privileges committee said it first wanted to give EFF members a chance to present their side of the story before deciding whether to charge them.
Parliament’s legal advisers said they must first identify and question EFF MPs to first determine if there was any contempt of Parliament.
But EFF’s Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said what they did was not a violation of the rules.
“Then the matter is closed. There is nothing you can do about it. It is your right; they were told to sit down or they were told their orders were wrong and they are not just EFF members. “
The external legal advisor, defender Thiloshni Gangen, said that Parliament can proceed on the instructions of President Thandi Modise.
“In accordance with article 1214, after the referral of the President to the committee, the committee must deal with the matter in accordance with the procedure established in the program of the rule.”
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