How the drama ebbed and owed

Tuesday
Mmusi Maimane
opens the debate
on a motion of
no condence in
Speaker Baleka
Mbete
Opposition MPs get
angry with ANC
supporters in the
public gallery who
clap their hands and
allegedly jeer at them
EFF MP Khanyisile Litcheld-
Tshabalala tells ANC MP
Nomvula Mokonyane its a tragic
day when parliamentarians will
use their buttocks to protect a
corrupt individual
ANC MP Bertha
Mabe tells Julius
Malema that he is
nothing and that
he also embroils his
family in scandal
The DAs chief whip,
John Steenhuisen,
says its Gwede
Mantashe who
controls Parliament,
not Mbete
ANC chief whip Stone
Sizani tries to have the
motion of no condence
changed to one of
condence. Most of the
opposition parties walk out
Sizani retracts his
proposal and says the
ANC is ready to vote.
234 ANC and NFP
MPs vote against the
motion
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Thursday
Arts and Culture Minister
Nathi Mthethwa opens the
debate on Heritage Day
DA MP Phumzile van Damme calls ANC
MP Jackson Mthembu xenophobic after
he asks where she was born
Deputy justice minister John Jeffrey describes the
motion of no condence as a desperate bid by the DA
to win back the role of ofcial opposition from the EFF
The debate closes
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Wednesday
Mbete opens
the House
Cyril Ramaphosa
answers a question from
Malema about Marikana
Malema tells Ramaphosa he
has the blood of Marikanas
victims on his hands
Floyd Shivambu calls Ramaphosa a murderer
and shows him the middle nger as he and
other EFF members walk out of Parliament
Maimane asks whether Ramaphosa
will apologise if its found he played
a role in the Marikana massacre
Sitting continues
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THEUNS KRUGER, Graphics24