'Ramaphosa lost the right to be granted an audience in Parliament' 🫣EFF remains adamant it will not attend the President's SONA reply in Parliament on Thursdays because of his failed leadership. SONA2023 CyrilRamaphosa TheCitizenNews
Julius Malema and other EFF members were removed from the SONA on Thursday night, after disrupting proceedings. Picture: AFP
The Economic Freedom Fighters on Thursday said it will not be attending President Cyril Ramaphosa’s reply to the debate of his state of the nation address in Cape Town on Thursday. “The EFF has long declared that Ramaphosa has failed to lead South Africa in all respects, and this was illustrated lucidly during the submissions of the leadership of the EFF during the debate,” the party said in a statement.The red berets disrupted Ramaphosa’s Sona last week Thursday, saying it will not be addressed by a “constitutional delinquent”.
After refusing to allow Ramaphosa to deliver his speech, some EFF members tried to storm the stage. The party’s MPs were thenThe EFF insist that the president cannot address Parliament because he had taken it to court. Ramaphosa is challenging the report against him by Parliament’s Section 89 panel on Phala Phala.
“It is Cyril Ramaphosa who has taken his own Parliament to court, because of his determination to cover-up the crimes of money laundering, tax evasion, kidnapping, torture and bribery which were committed at and in relation to Phala Phala Farm. By taking Parliament to court, Ramaphosa has taken the people of South Africa to court for trying to execute accountability,” the EFF said on Thursday.
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