Addressing a media briefing in parliament in Cape Town on Friday, EFF leader Julius Malema said Mapisa-Nqakula referred to EFF MPs as ''animals’’ while they were being removed by security services.
''When we were being removed she said, ‘animals out.’ This is unacceptable... She is impatient and irresponsible... We will report the Speaker to the rules committee of parliament and as a matter of urgency table a motion of no confidence against her for referring to members of parliament as animals.
He said the party has written a letter to Mapisa-Nqakula to apologise within 48 hours of receiving it for allowing police and members of the Presidential Protection Unit inside parliament. Malema said Mapisa-Nqakula and the parliamentary protection services should call a press conference and condemn the"unlawful eviction".
He said security services are only permitted to enter parliament when there is disruption that is a threat to life, danger to life or damage to property,
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