EFF STATEMENT ON ACCUSATIONS THAT PUBLIC PROTECTOR IS PARTIAL IN JOINING PAY BACK THE MONEY CASE

The EFF condemns the ANC's lazy logic that the Public Protector's decision to join the #PayBackTheMoney case means that she is not impartial. This logic distorts the basic conception of our democracy and the place of the Public Protector in it. Above all institutions, the Public Protector is the first and most important defender of her office. When her office is under attack, she is expected to do everything in her power to protect it.

It is a matter of public record that the very ANC in parliament not only attacked and ridiculed the office of the Public Protector, they have also denied her the opportunity to represent her office in all ad-hoc committees that dealt with the Nkandla corruption. After closing all parliament doors, the ANC now wants to also block the Public Protector from entering the doors of our courts.

The Public Protector has not joined the EFF, her office is not taking a membership of the EFF. The Public Protector is joining a court case, a legal matter that finds its genesis from her report, investigation and remedial action. The DA or any other political party, including the ANC, can also join and when they do so it does not make them members of the EFF.

We call upon South Africans to also join in by supporting this case, because it is the case seeking to recover the money belonging to the people. The ANC is trying to deter our focus from the main question, a question they have collapsed through parliamentary rules in order to shut it down and bury it. This is the question of when is Zuma going to pay back the money.

The ANC is speaking under suffocation because they can see the writing on the wall. There is no point of order, parliamentary ad hoc committee or bouncers who can stop Zuma from facing the truth that he must with speed, pay back the money that was unduly spent in his private home in Nkandla.

Issued by Mbuyiseni Quintin Ndlozi, EFF National Spokesperson, 13 October 2015