While the history of the EFF’s behaviour in legislature environments may give you reason to assume that their Mpumalanga leader Collen Sedibe acted in some questionable way, all he was reportedly trying to do was find out information on the poor way the ANC was handling education in certain areas.

Now, Sedibe has laid charges against provincial legislature speaker Thandi Shongwe after he ordered Sedibe to leave the makeshift legislature sitting held in Acornhoek last week. Sedibe refused to leave, but “instead accused Shongwe of protesting ANC members of the legislature from accounting to the people of Mpumalanga.” Sedibe had this to say:

I have opened criminal charges against the Speaker, the Sergeant-At-Arms and the three legislature security officials who bundled me out of the legislature sitting.

During their oversight visit in Bushbuckridge they found schools with inadequate classrooms, which they brought to the attention of education MEC Reginah Mhaule.

We visited the schools around Bushbuckridge and discovered that there was a severe shortage of classes, where learners were using car shade ports as classrooms. All we wanted was to hold the MEC accountable as per our mandate as members of the legislature, but the Speaker failed to elicit a response from the MEC, instead she protected her.

Sedibe did acknowledge that the MEC had responded to one of three questions. The two questions that were not responded to included details on “a pupil who drowned while crossing a river in order to get to school” and “the one of pupils who study under car shade ports.”

Apparently Sedibe was bundled out of the legislature sitting “because he flouted legislature rules.”

[source: timeslive]