CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA AUGUST 31, 2017: Julius Malema (President of EFF) during the National Assembly meeting on August 31, 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa.
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA AUGUST 31, 2017: Julius Malema (President of EFF) during the National Assembly meeting on August 31, 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa.
There are three things that are guaranteed in life: Death, taxes and the ejection of the EFF from South African Parliament. “Land grabs” were the hot-button issue, here.
We saw scenes all-too-familiar on Wednesday afternoon, as political parties gathered to discuss the budget vote. Of course, when the topic of land expropriation came up, it was all guns blazing from Julius Malema and his comrades.
A lively debate culminated with Malema questioning the authority of the National Assembly. He renounced the Parliament as “useless” before the Speaker was compelled to boot the party out of the sitting. The exchange was something else.
Watch Julius Malema, EFF get thrown out of Parliament:
Lol #Malema in the National Assembly, #PresidencyBudget #SupraMahumapelo #zuma #Premier #Sassa #ChooseDay #EFF #ANC pic.twitter.com/xNgYLo7twg
— Sanele Sano Ngcobo (@sanosanele) May 23, 2018
“They must occupy land. There’s nothing this Parliament can do. With or without you, people are going to occupy land. We require no permission from you, the speaker, the president… No-one!”
“We don’t care. Who are you tell us whether we can occupy land or not? Do whatever you want to do: You can dissolve my membership from this useless Parliament.”
Julius Malema leads “occupy land” chants
It was perhaps the most animated we have seen Julius Malema in Parliament during Cyril Ramaphosa’s tenure as president.
From there, the party had their card marked. Just moments after, they began repetitively chanting “occupy land” during the session. The house was left with no option but to give the red berets the red card:
(@EFFSouthAfrica
The EFF leadership chased out of the National Assembly for exposing President Ramaphosa’s wishy washy stance on land expropriation without compensation #PresidencyBudget #BudgetVote pic.twitter.com/iZdZZsPTP4 https://t.co/0YieyJQho3— saPATRIOT (@radebe_jacob) May 23, 2018
Land grabs on the agenda
The EFF leader made his comments at a highly-sensitive time for the land issue. In the last week alone, we’ve seen separate land grab attempts in Hermanus and Parklands, both in the Western Cape.
