Parliament must crack the whip against the rabble-rousing EFF, whose antics have disrupted proceedings on a couple of occasions, says Gwede Mantashe.
The two EFF leaders have been thrown out of Parliament for a second time after calling Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa a murderer.
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/ 11 September 2014
Elements of judgments in Sanral and ‘spy tapes’ cases do not accord with principle of open justice.
Julius Malema and his fellow MPs made good on their threat to block all motions in the House on Wednesday, causing proceedings to be suspended.
Baleka Mbete said she is aware of her responsibility to impartiality, despite controversy around handling of the recent EFF fracas in Parliament.
EFF leader Julius Malema warned National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete that if she does not withdraw her suspension notice, the EFF will go to court.
Parliament’s speaker insists that asking EFF members to leave was necessary and not born out of conflicted loyalties.
While evading questions about what measures might be taken against the EFF, the defence minister has accused the party of undermining Parliament.
In the face of security clusters and being told to sit down and shut up, Julius Malema and the EFF ask, “For what?”
After an uproar in Parliament, sparked by EFF members chanting "pay back the money", questions have been raised about the house’s security.
Baleka Mbete suspended Parliament after EFF members started banging on their hard hats shouting "we want the money" and "Nkandla must be paid".
Economic Freedom Fighters MPs want President Jacob Zuma to pay back the money spent on Nkandla, causing uproar in Parliament on Thursday.
M&G readers write in about the EFF and freedom of speech, and how Thuthukile Zuma’s job is an insult to our democracy.
The Economic Freedom Fighters has hogged headlines since its entrance in May. Party leader Julius Malema says "you can’t be an EFF MP and be shy".
Julius Malema has threatened mass protest following the Gauteng Legislature’s decision to bar EFF’s members from wearing their red uniforms.
Gauteng is meant to have ruled on whether overalls are appropriate in the halls of power, but the red berets seem happy working outside the house.
The EFF is a metaphor for the structural incompleteness of SA’s democracy.
Julius Malema told supporters at the party’s first anniversary celebrations in Soweto that the EFF was already "playing in the big leagues".
It’s the EFF’s first birthday and the party was in the wars again. But Malema maintains he is no monster – he listens, reflects and can be won over.
The legislature should not be fixated on clothes, and the EFF should stop their gimmicks. There is work to be done.
After 10 years of torpor, SA’s fifth Parliament seems to have entered an interesting and perhaps more important phase, with plenty of possibilities.
Tension between FF Plus and EFF MPs continues, this time at a land reform budget debate where Andile Mngxitama was kicked out.
A raucous exchange over who stole whose land led to the eviction of EFF MPs from Parliament – after which ANC leaders took up their fight.
One of four Limpopo mayors recalled from office by the ANC has resigned from his position as a councillor, he said on Saturday.
Despite talk of reconciliation and non-racialism in SA, the colonial status quo remains in our country.
Thanks to the Gauteng ANC’s short-sighted action over the EFF’s uniforms, Julius Malema has been neatly handed his next political theatre script.
Letter from Parliament: EFF MP Andile Mngxitima believes that actually, the struggle against power is the struggle to return meaning to words.
The recently launched "radical" Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters has already set strong anti-homosexuality and resource management agendas.
When there is corruption and the state is struggling to deal with pressing social issues a strong figure can become attractive to many people.
The EFF leaders’ ongoing Zuma-bashing has cost them a member committed to economic freedom.
Politics aside, South Africans share aspirations for economic growth under legitimate leadership.
Africanism and black consciousness make up a perennial trend in our politics. They are not going to die.