Julius Malema, EFF leader, after the 2019 Sona in Cape Town, 7 February 2019. Picture: Tracy Lee Stark
The EFF has released a statement revealing that they believe there was a planned assassination on the party’s leader, Julius Malema, which was set to take place in parliament during President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Sona on Thursday night. According to the EFF, the alleged assassination was counting on the EFF being thrown out of parliament, like in the past year, which did not happen.
However, the party did not stop being suspicious, which is why they attacked the parliament security officer in “necessary self-defence”.
“We are told that the Parliamentary Security Service has been infiltrated by these groups and targeted the occasion of the Sona to execute the assassination. They hoped that the EFF caucus would be kicked out of the house using parliamentary security. The anticipated evil acts would then be carried out during this moments of chaos.
“When Malema and the EFF leadership were unreasonably stopped by these white shirts in parliament, after the house had been adjourned, we all thought this was the moment and reacted with the necessary self-defence. The event of a white security man in black and white, being pushed and clapped in the face, followed him violently pulling Malema from passing through the corridor doors of the national assembly.”
The party implicated members of the police in the plot, saying they had been hired to assassinate Malema because of his stance on land expropriation without compensation.
“The security threat implicates elite members of the police, who are in collaboration with right wing groups to take the life of Malema in an attempt to undermine the advances on the expropriation of land without compensation discourse that will soon be law.
“We must put it on record that according to the Powers, Privileges and Immunities of the members of the Parliament Act, section 7(c), no one is allowed to obstruct MPs in the precinct of parliament from going anywhere to do their work. It is illegal and those who do security in the precinct should be well aware of these provisions.
“The EFF is not moved or intimidated by these reports of a security threat,” the party said.
(Compiled by Vhahangwele Nemakonde)
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