Political lynching by DA kangaroo court
10 June 2016
The Western Cape ANC says the shockingly absurd ‘sentence’ of its Western Cape legislature chief whip Pierre Uys is inappropriate and erroneous.
Uys was suspended for two days in February 2015 after the DA speaker of the legislature Sharna Fernandez adjourned the meeting preventing premier Helen Zille from delivering her state of the province address.
Today a DA loaded disciplinary committee added an additional ‘sentence’ to dock a month’s salary and allowances from Uys (of which half is suspended for twelve months) as well as a further sanction of apologising to the legislature for not obeying an illegal request by Fernandez to leave the meeting in 2015. The full legislature will consider these extra ‘sentences’ after the elections.
Western Cape ANC secretary Faiez Jacobs says: “The DA undermines our democracy as well as persecutes and oppresses political opponents with apartheid style abuse of laws and veiled legal processes. This punishment aims to intimidate opposition parties and serves as a cover up for an inept speaker. It is part of its plan to limit the democratically elected opposition and clamping down on democracy.