EFF boycotts #ZumaQandA
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are not participating the Question and Answer session in the National Assembly.
President Jacob Zuma is answering questions in Parliament for the last time this year.
The EFF says they are not in the House, because they do not recognise Zuma as President.
"Jacob Zuma was found by the Constitutional Court to have violated his oath of office, and thereby undermining the constitution in that he failed to uphold and protect it. Zuma failed to do this in relation to the processes of the upgrade of his private home in Nkandla where he unduly benefited from the abuse and misuse of state funds," says EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.
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Ndlozi says President Zuma was found to have violated the Code of Ethics in his business dealings with the Gupta family in the Public Protector's State of Capture report.
"Zuma has allowed the country to be led politically, by the Gupta family which South Africans did not vote for. It is beyond any doubt that Zuma is at the centre of a Gupta criminal syndicate and they have turned South Africa into a kleptocracy," says Ndlozi.
Ndlozi says it is immoral to legitimise and normalise a fugitive by participating in a Question and Answer session.
"We refuse to normalise him, and reject the hypocrisy and failure of parliament to think Zuma can comply and answer about the country when he has been declared in the highest court in the land to be in violation of the law of the land. Zuma is a fugitive and the entire continuation with him in all sessions, whether symbolic or real, as if he is normal will not help change the situation," says Ndlozi.