Julius Malema‚ leader of the EFF launched a scathing attack on President Jacob Zuma and newly appointed Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba, on Friday. At a media briefing in Johannesburg‚ Malema confirmed that the EFF had written to the speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Mbete, to ask for an urgent sitting of Parliament so that a vote of no confidence can be tabled against Zuma, following his bombshell Cabinet reshuffle at midnight on Thursday. The DA has also written to Mbete seeking the same motion.

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