By Kgothatso Madisa
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has refused to respond to the letter written to him by Gayton McKenzie.
“I refuse to wrestle with a pig in the mud because it will emerge victorious”, were the words uttered by the EFF leader in response to a question about the letter which has since gone viral on social media.
In the letter McKenzie accuses Malema of using the party’s funds to pay for personal purchases.
Again Malema chose to be the ‘bigger’ person by refusing to engage in the mudslinging when ENCA asked for a comment on the matter.
On the matter of his party’s planned disruption of parliamentary proceedings, the EFF leader remained adamant that their actions would not be against any law.
“Journalists should begin to ask Parliament as to which rule of Parliament or the joint rules prohibit people from standing up on a point of order or privilege to ask the president a question”, he said.
“They (ruling party) know there is no such a rule and that’s why they wanted to hash some rules on the eve of the coming state of the nation,” he said.
Malema also clarified that the EFFs mission is not to disrupt the State of the Nation Address but to simply ask President Zuma a couple of questions.
“We are not going to interrupt the state of the nation address, we are going to ask question because the president has not been to parliament to answer questions as required by the rules and the constitution of the republic of South Africa,” he said.
Asked about the EFFs strategy should the police be asked to remove them from the chambers, Malema said the police have no rights to remove honourable members from the National Assembly.
“How do you call police for people who are questions? Even the Apartheid regime has never done such a stupid thing. So it is uncalled for. It is not even something that we are imagining because it has never crossed our minds.”
“The point is colleagues are asking each other questions, it has got nothing to do with Public Order Policing because in the chambers there is no public there is honourable members so Public Order Policing must go and control the public and not honourable members.” Sowetan
