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SACP slams opposition over JZ stance Zunaid Ismael, iAfrica.com, Johannesburg, 1 December 2014 SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande has hit out at opposition parties over their continued insistence that President Jacob Zuma appears in Parliament to answer questions on Nkandla. Nzimande, speaking at an SACP Central Committee meeting in Johannesburg over the weekend, accused opposition parties of teaming up to discredit the ANC. He accused the EFF of pushing its "egotistic agenda" in Parliament and claimed that the DA's parliamentary caucus had been "captured" by a "youngish, largely male white, often racist, brat-pack." Blade Nzimande in SADTU beret.jpg "The EFF, a demagogic, neo-fascist, populist formation has made it clear that it is prepared to erode the legitimacy of hard-won democratic institutions as it advances, hell-bent on its egotistic agenda. The EFF are not the only ones who have forgotten the situation out of which our present democracy emerged. There is now a youngish, largely male white, often racist, brat-pack within the DA that has captured hegemony in its parliamentary caucus," Nzimande was quoted as saying by the SABC. "What is robust about what is going on in parliament today, what does robust mean? Have we deteriorated as the media and as the country to an extent that anarchy and hooliganism is called robustness? What debates have you heard from the EFF of any substance either than banging the desks to say pay back the money? Is that the new benchmark that the media is setting up to say it's robustness? God help us all. If that's the case, then we might as well close my department, the Department of Education and Higher Training because we mustn't allow anybody to be more educated because now you can be robust by banging desks in parliament." Last week Parliament adopted a recommendation that EFF MPs be suspended from Parliament for 30 days without pay for heckling President Jacob Zuma in Parliament in August. From: http://news.iafrica.com/sa/973355.html -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
