EFF to ask ConCourt to take action over Zuma

THE EFF would approach the Constitutional Court to force parliament to take disciplinary action against President Jacob Zuma‚ the party’s leader Julius Malema said yesterday.

This was after the same court in 2015 found Zuma had violated the Constitution in his handling of the public protector’s report into non-security upgrades at his Nkandla home.

The EFF have since referred to Zuma as an “illegimate president”.

“The Constitutional Court can’t say this person acted unconstitutionally and it ends there and nothing happens‚” Malema told journalists in Johannesburg.

“You are rendering the Constitutional Court useless. You are doing what they [the ANC] did with the public protector’s remedial action.”

Malema said the EFF would approach the highest court in the land for direct access.

It wanted the court to compel parliament and National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete to either impeach Zuma or make him facing a disciplinary hearing. “We want the court to compel Baleka to take action.”

Malema said parliament had again violated the Constitution claiming that SA Police Service members posing as parliament’s protection services members evicted EFF MPs from the chamber last week.

Malema said the EFF had proof that SAPS members were used in the National Asssembly and the party was identifying them.

In 2015 the High Court in Cape Town ruled that police officers were not allowed to remove or arrest MPs for anything they said or did in the National Assembly.

“You are prepared to protect an individual that has breached his oath of office and the Constitution and then beat up those who are exposing that and then leave the crook in parliament‚” he said, referring to the ANC in parliament.

“Parliament was meant to take him through an inquiry or impeachment process after the Constitutional Court [judgment]. Still parliament does nothing.”

● Malema also weighed in over the pitch invasion by Orlando Pirates supporters‚ during the Bucs’ disastrous 60 thrashing at the hands of Mamelodi Sundowns at the weekend.

He deviated from his statement at the media conference to lob a verbal grenade at the fans.

“We don’t agree with violence. Even this thing of Pirates was not correct‚” he said.

The PSL match was delayed for an hour in Pretoria on Saturday after Percy Tau’s 82nd-minute sixth goal sparked a pitch invasion first by Pir fans‚ then those of Sundowns in response‚ resulting in fist-fights‚ violence and injuries.

The players‚ coaching staff and benches of both sides sprinted for the safety of the change-rooms.

After the PSL’s security officials were overwhelmed an SA Police Services armoured vehicle entered the pitch and teargas and stun grenades were fired.

The match resumed after the delay‚ and was completed‚ but only after fans were treated for injuries by paramedics on the field. — TMG