By Zuko Komisa
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has survived the Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF)’s motion of no confidence.
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, the speaker of the National Assembly, avoided being ousted when the EFF’s resolution of no-confidence failed to receive the necessary number of votes on Wednesday.
The EFF put the proposal on the table after being kicked out of the meeting on February 9 during President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address.
234 MPs voted against Mapisa-Nqakula’s removal, while only 42 MPs abstained.
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On Wednesday the EFF accused her of being an “unrepentant delinquent” who exploits her authority and breaks both the National Assembly’s and the constitution’s rules.
“She allowed the police to invade parliament and made it worse by calling on the security forces of South Africa to enter the chamber to intimidate peaceful members of parliament,” he said.
Malema also claimed that Mapisa-Nqakula was defending Ramaphosa by rejecting the ATM and other parties’ requests for a secret ballot in the vote to create the Section 89 committee into the Phala Phala scandal, despite the fact that MPs had been threatened with expulsion by the ANC if they chose to vote against party lines.
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