EFF in CoCT accuses council speaker of abusing rules to eject its members

This comes EFF members demonstrated over taxi impoundments on the council floor, interrupting Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis' usual address.

CAPE TOWN - The Economic Freedom Fighters in the Cape Town city council is accusing speaker Felicity Purchase of misusing council rules to kick them out of a council sitting.

EFF members who demonstrated over taxi impoundments on the council floor were asked to leave after disrupting mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis' address.However, chaos broke out when EFF members tried to gain access to the venue.City of Cape Town law enforcement officers formed a barricade between EFF members and the room where the council meeting was moved to."You're a militant organisation for JP Smith, firearms are not supposed to be here.""There are rules of the house.

The meeting has since resumed to debate the taxi stay away that turned violent in Cape Town recently.

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