After an hour of EFF MPs’ interjections, when all were muted online or physically removed from the House, President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered what essentially was a State of the Nation 2.0.
That disruptions hit President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Presidency Budget Vote on Thursday wasn’t really a surprise – EFF leader Julius Malema had warned of this a day earlier. A hint had also emerged duringIn 2014, the call was: “Pay back the money”, for then president Jacob Zuma to do as the Public Protector said – to repay money spent on so-called security upgrades of the cattle kraal, chicken run, amphitheatre and swimming pool at his Nkandla homestead.
“Phala Phala is fast becoming your Nkandla,” he said, pointing also to the “blurring of the line between Mr Ramaphosa, the head of state, and Mr Ramaphosa, the businessman”. “I’m sure you’ll agree, Mr President, South Africans have a right to know if you are using your VIP Protection Unit as a private debt collection agency.”
“The presidency is not yours. It belongs to the Republic of South Africa. When you drag the presidency into the gutter, you drag our country down too. South Africans don’t want this and they don’t deserve this.” An EFF member of Parliament is thrown out of the National Assembly Plenary Sitting at the Good Hope Chamber in Parliament on 9 June 2022.
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