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House Speaker Grace Boroto chaired the session last year during which EFF members stormed the podium where Gordhan was voting on his department’s budget.
EFF deputies are expelled during the Pravin Gordhan Public Enterprises budget vote. Image: EWN YouTube.
CAPE TOWN – A parliamentary speaker said at a disciplinary hearing that she was investigating the conduct of economic freedom fighters (EFF) parliamentarians who she feared would attack or even stab Public Enterprise Minister Pravin Gordhan.
House Speaker Grace Boroto chaired the session last year during which EFF members stormed the podium where Gordhan was casting a vote on his department’s budget.
On Thursday, he testified before Parliament’s powers and privileges committee, which hears witnesses as part of a disciplinary hearing against 16 EFF deputies.
The committee also heard from three witnesses who saw EFF MPs disrupt the mini-plenary last year.
Boroto told the hearing that she was shocked.
“If there is going to be a charge, I am not sure what will happen, I cannot say that he was going to be beaten or stabbed. We see that in other parliaments these things happen, but I was afraid because there was already a threat, which said that this man is not going to speak here today.
The committee also received oral evidence from Collen Mahlangu, the undersecretary of the National Assembly Bureau who was on duty when the incident occurred.
Video footage was played during Mahlangu’s testimony to help committee members identify those involved.
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