MP ejected from Parliament for saying David Mabuza needs to be ‘rehabilitated from premier league’
An opposition MP was booted out of the National Assembly on Tuesday for telling Deputy President David Mabuza that he "lacks credibility" to be the leader of the moral regeneration movement. Andries Tlouamma‚ the sole MP of small party Agang SA‚ was ejected from the chamber by deputy speaker of the National Assembly Lechesa Tsenoli after he refused numerous requests for him to withdraw remarks that Mabuza was not credible enough to lead the movement and "needed to be rehabilitated from the premier league". The "premier league" was a group of ANC premiers from Mpumalanga‚ the Free State and the North West that was close to former president Jacob Zuma and campaigned unsuccessfully for his preferred successor, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, at the party’s elective conference in December. Speaking during a discussion on Mabuza’s reply to a question from DA chief whip John Steenhuisen on the work of the moral regeneration movement‚ Tlouamma said the newly appointed deputy president was simply n...
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