Stop your bullying, W Cape ANC warns DA

The ANC has launched a scathing attack on the DA after they issued a summons to Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba. File photo: Etienne Creux

The ANC has launched a scathing attack on the DA after they issued a summons to Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba. File photo: Etienne Creux

Published Oct 1, 2014

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Cape Town - The ANC caucus in the Western Cape legislature has warned the DA to stop its bullying tactics, including issuing summonses to ANC leaders and “treating them like criminals”.

Accusing the DA of repeatedly trying to embarrass ANC leaders, the party said the DA had been abusing the legislature and its processes for party political catfights and cheap point scoring.

ANC caucus chair Sharon Davids said they feared the recent actions by the DA would ultimately cause the collapse of the legislature and its independent processes.

Davids said the latest victim was Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba, who was summonsed to appear before the provincial parliament’s standing committee on economic development and tourism, to engage on the new visa regulations.

Citing prior engagements, Gigaba, failed to arrive for the hearings probing the impact of the new immigration regulations. Prior to this the provincial parliament also summonsed ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman and chief whip Pierre Uys.

“The DA bends rules; does not adhere to the rule of law or the constitution and stretches the limits to try and make itself relevant in an environment where it disregards the constitutional principles of co-operative governance and only pays lip service to be part of a unitary state that is interdependent,” Davids said.

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