House Speaker threatens to evict Malema

Speaker Baleka Mbete threatened to throw Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema out for interrupting a special questions session in the National Assembly yesterday. A News24 report notes that Malema had demanded that the session start with the party's question to President Jacob Zuma about when he was going to pay back the money on his Nkandla homestead. The party did not have an opportunity to ask the question at a session on 21 August because of interruptions. After a series of interruptions by Malema, Mbete asked him to take his seat. 'I am going to have to throw you out of the house,' she warned. Malema told her: 'We are getting a raw deal. This can't be correct.' DA Chief Whip John Steenhuisen intervened and asked Mbete not to throw anyone out of the house. 'I also, and the DA also, wants to know when the President is going to pay back the money. We have to uphold and protect the rules of Parliament.' Mbete said the issue had been more than adequately canvassed and clarified.