EFF REITERATES THAT IT WILL TABLE A MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE IN TROLLIP TO PUNISH RACISM IN THE DA
Friday, March 2, 2018
The EFF reiterates its position that following the attitude of the DA on the land question in parliament, we will be tabling a motion of no confidence in the Mayor of Nelson Mandela, Athol Trollip on the 06 April 2018. No amount deliberate misrepresentation of the CIC Julius Malema’s statements as hate speech will deter us from punishing the DA for their attitude on the land question.
The DA knows that we used “throat-cutting” as a figure of speech for unapologetically and unsympathetically removing Trolip to mirror their own unsympathetic attitude toward black land loss. We use that metaphor to indicate that we are ending support for the DA due to its own racism. Because we have chosen to do this with Athol Trolip, the DA is escalating the fight so that all other mayors in Johannesburg and Tshwane can be removed. The point is, if they lose Trollip, they should also lose others, because other mayors are not white.
It is the DA’s general disregard of the crime of colonial and apartheid land dispossession that irks us the most. Each time the land question comes up, they deliberately disregard the evident and indisputable history of dispossession. Their argument, in essence, is that government must pay white people for land that was taken through a systematic crime against humanity.
During negotiations with the DA for governance in local municipalities, we never hid it from them that the EFF’s central revolutionary objective is land expropriation without compensation. We never hid it from them that given the opportunity to punish racism in their ranks, we will do so by using our voting power.