OPINION: The EFF, from bold to boring sage_of_absurd
South Africans have never been short on inspiration in the art of disrupting politics and government, but things truly caught traction in 2014 when EFF members disrupted Parliament during former President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address where he was heckled by the “workers party” to pay back the money spent on his Nkandla homestead.
The EFF's appeal and stance against anti-elitist sentiment and a government that sought only to fulfil selfish needs had the potential to bloom into something more than a political party which was seen as an outsider of the system. The disruption warranted a harsh punishment. It was found that 21 EFF MPs‚ including Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu, were guilty of contempt of Parliament. And 12 of them were, in fact, suspended without pay for between 14 and 30 days. Other members were fined the equivalent of 14 days salary.
The self-proclaimed workers party, in their red overalls and domestic worker uniforms, had solidified their stance as the representation of disorder. And while disorder serves, the party’s incessant need to settle so comfortably into this role has resulted in a disorder that fails to serve and serves to destroy. And their destruction has become an act of self-fulfilment.
The EFF's disruption of Sona is no longer a matter of profound revolutionary intervention - as we've seen in previous years. They have regressed into a group that merely seeks to disrupt the dissemination of information that fellow South Africans are waiting to hear.
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