Parliament s inquiry into EFF fracas during Gordhan budget speech to resume next year news24.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news24.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Citizen reporter EFF MP Nokulunga Sonti was ordered to leave the House by the speaker, but EFF leader Julius Malema objected to the manner in which she was ordered to leave and the order was withdrawn. 16 EFF MPs were found guilty of misconduct for storming the stage during Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan’s budget vote in July 2019. Picture: Reuters/Sumaya Hisham.
This follows an investigation into allegations of conduct constituting contempt of Parliament by EFF members during President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) on 13 February.
The EFF raised several points of order, including objecting to the presence in the gallery of former president FW de Klerk, and asked that he be requested to leave the House. They also objected to the presence of Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan in the House.
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Johannesburg - The Zondo commission will continue to hear money flow evidence in relation to McKinsey on Friday.
McKinsey Senior Partner Dr Alexander Weiss is expected to take the stand.
On Thursday a former executive at Gupta-linked Trillian revealed that one of her colleagues informed her that Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan would be fired from the finance portfolio by former president Jacob Zuma.
Mosilo Mothepu, a former Trillian Financial Advisory chief executive, said she and her colleagues were told more than a year before that Gordhan would be axed.
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