EFF ga bana maitseo - Khama
Sharon Mathala | Friday September 19, 2014 16:41
Malema, who was meant to officiate at a rally held in honour of UDC council candidate for Borakanelo ward in Molepolole, Arafat Khan, was denied a Botswana visa last week.
“They invited some of the members of a new party in South Africa to come officiate at their rally. They wanted them as their instructors and mentors, but these are the very same people who are causing havoc at the South African Parliament,” Khama said.
Khama said that the recent transgressions by the EFF at the South African Parliament sitting show that if elected into power the UDC may imitate them.
Khama said yesterday at a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) rally in Ramotswa that UDC inviting Malema to attend one of their rallies shows the type of government they could be.
Malema incurred the wrath of the government of Botswana after calling for the removal of Khama as President and his ‘puppet regime’.
Soon after his remarks Malema was suspended and later expelled from the SA ruling party, African National Congress.
Khama also lambasted the opposition saying, “They say the BDP is too old, but the BDP is as old as the country. Surprisingly some of their members have been and still are defecting into the BDP. Go swa bone eseng rona. They have only seven parliamentary seats whilst we have more than 40. Go sule bone”.
“Just recently when I was in Tumasera we received a total of 90 members of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) who defected to the BDP, we have also received members in Bobonong, Sefhophe and Tutume.”
Scheduled to attend the rally last Saturday, Malema’s visit was cancelled at the last minute.
He posted to his 531 followers on Twitter: “This autocratic military government of Botswana has refused me a visa even when the Botswana people want us to visit them this weekend.”
The party then issued a press statement: “Economic Freedom Fighters condemns the refusal by the autocratic military government of Botswana to grant the CIC Julius Malema a visa. There are absolutely no grounds for a so-called democratic country to refuse a person a visa merely on the basis that he holds a different political view to that of the government.”
On Wednesday some of the EFF members along with their leader were thrown out of Parliament for the second time since it began this year.
They were ordered to leave the National Assembly after accusing SA Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa of murdering 34 Marikana mine workers.