Thursday, September 10, 2015

NEW: EFF to fight Malema's suspension from Parliament

The Economic Freedom Fighters is planning to launch an urgent court application to have leader Julius Malema’s five-day suspension from Parliament lifted.

Malema was physically removed and escorted out of Parliament on Wednesday after he refused to apologise and withdraw a statement made last month in the House calling Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa a murderer.















In a statement on Thursday, the party said they were launching a court application to get the suspension overturned as well as to “suspend enforcement of these criminal rules until the courts have pronounced themselves on their unlawfulness and unconstitutionality.”


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