Trollip punished for stance on land

‘He must know there are consequences’

EFF leader Julius Malema says the party’s motion of no confidence in Nelson Mandela Bay Metro mayor Athol Trollip is to demonstrate its seriousness on the question of land expropriation without compensation.

Malema was speaking at a rally in New Brighton, Nelson Mandela Bay yesterday – a day before EFF push for a motion of no confidence.

“So why Trollip? – Trollip is a national chairperson of the DA. He was chairing a meeting that took a decision that said ‘we are not going to support the land’. He must know there are consequences for that‚” Malema said.

He said “my children‚ our children” were going to ask what did the EFF do when the DA voted against land expropriation. “My answer cannot be ‘we continued to vote for them’‚” Malema said.

Malema said that the EFF could not befriend Trollip if he was not firm on the question of land.

“If we punish them in Nelson Mandela [Bay] in order to get the message to them‚ let it be done. For the land everything else can be done.

“For as long as the matter of the land is restored firmly on the table,” he said.

The DA and its coalition partners were confident that they would survive a bid to dismantle the entire political leadership structure in Nelson Mandela Bay at a council meeting today‚ reported Sowetan sister publication The Herald.

“The reasons Malema put for removing me were undemocratic‚” Trollip told supporters yesterday at a rally in front of the Port Elizabeth City Hall.

“Like a spoilt child when he didn’t get his way in parliament with his mad motion that would cripple the economy‚ Malema said he would remove me based on my skin colour‚” Trollip said.

‘‘ The reasons that Malema took for removing me were undemocratic