EFF learns of ANC mobilisation in townships to come assault the EFF MPs in parliament

27 August, 2014

Economic Freedom Fighters has learned that the ANC is mobilising hooligans in the Townships of Cape Town to come and assault EFF MPs today in Parliament. The EFF has learned of that they are loud-hailing across the townships, promising people free buses to go to Parliament and deal with the EFF.

This is a clear plan to disrupt parliament and render its work dysfunctional. It means the ANC is planning to undermine the very parliament that it claims to protect and respect.

UPDATE:

EFF warned that ANC organised hooligans and it was right

27 August 2014

The Economic Freedom Fighters warned that the ANC has organised hooligans who were meant to "deal with the EFF". When the EFF released a statement this morning the ANC, through its Chief Whip's Office said the EFF is "imagining things, and this is a figment of their imagination".

Yet later today members of the ANC were reportedly singing "shoot Malema" in scores outside parliament demanding to be allowed into the chambers. The Police had to escort them, guard them all the time in case they unleashed the planned hooliganism or disruption against members of parliament.

The ANC must live with the reality that the EFF is in parliament both by law and popular will. Organising the police, military or any hooligans to deal with us will not work. They must come face us themselves in the benches of parliament through robust discourse. They must stop protecting the executive, avoiding accountability and running away from questions and hiding behind hooligans.

EFF will continue to be in parliament and never retreat on its robust engagement with the executive or any other issue in front of the house.

Statements issued by the Economic Freedom Fighters, August 27 2014

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