MK Party & EFF walk out of Parliament refusing to be addressed by Ramaphosa.

Añadido: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]impeachment processes. We cannot continue to legitimize his presidency.

[00:00:06]>> Honorable member, what's the point of order?

[00:00:10]>> Speaker, I have written a letter to you prior to >> state the rules. State the rules.

[00:00:16]>> Honorable members, honorable members, can you please not open your mics when you are not appointed? What is your point of order?

[00:00:25]>> Thank you, speaker. The letter you have written to me, I've received it and I don't think it's for the house.

[00:00:31]>> You can take it.

[00:00:32]>> Speaker, I Speaker, can I speak?

[00:00:35]>> No, no surrender.

[00:00:38]>> Order.

[00:00:39]>> It cannot be business as usual. There is a reason why I wrote that letter today because there is an emergency that we need to discuss as this house.

[00:00:47]>> Honorable members, order. Can I address you? Can you please take your seat?

[00:00:54]Thank you.

[00:00:56]Honorable members, you have written a letter in respect of a matter that you would like the House to debate.

[00:01:06]As you know, that cannot happen today.

[00:01:13]Order. Honorable members.

[00:01:17]Order. Honorable members. I've not responded to the letter of the honorable member because I'm applying my mind on it. Today we only have got questions to the president. Thank you.

[00:01:36]>> Honorable.

[00:01:40]Thank you very much, Madame Speaker.

[00:01:43]Madame Speaker, if you look around this house, you will see that this house is mainly dominated by black faces.

[00:01:55]That is as a result of those who sacrificed the generation of 1960, the students of 1976.

[00:02:09]>> For that we respect this house. Yes, >> we therefore cannot sit here >> and listen to someone who does not respect them which talks about the sequence of proceedings.

[00:02:24]Order. Order. Honorable members, I did not ask to be assisted in sharing. So, can you please refrain from what you're doing?

[00:02:34]The notices and the orders of each day are discussed and agreed to in the rules in the programming and in the chief whips forum.

[00:02:49]The issue of emotion which you have written to me about as you know has to be considered and I will respond to you accordingly. But you cannot insist that as we sit here we suspend the order and discuss a motion. Thank you very much.

[00:03:07]Honorable Zungula. Yes, I've seen you speaker.

[00:03:13]This is the first time the house is meeting after the constitutional court ruling. The first thing you should do is to inform South Africans that the president is effectively charged. he's going to be subjected to an impeachment process. It cannot be that as the house is sitting, you do not take into confidence South Africans about this step. That has never happened in our country whereby a president is impeached.

[00:03:49]Please take your seat.

[00:03:52]Honorable member, can I address you unless you have forgotten what the matters that was in the constitutional court was about and those matters was about parliament and parliament's processes. And I think people should not jump the gun in terms of those processes. You sit in the chief whips forum. you know exactly the step that the speaker has taken in following the judgment and its implementation and I think that matter doesn't arise now honorable member >> chair person >> thank you honorable speaker I rise on rule 85 with respect to proper motives to the president and subsequently casting a patient that the president doesn't respect the Order. Honorable members.

[00:04:46]Order >> that the president.

[00:04:49]>> Honorable members, can you please allow a member on the podium to express >> honorable members? Honorable member of the MK party. Do you want to actually respect this house or you want me to rule you out of order and subsequently ask you to leave the house?

[00:05:11]And I don't think that's what you want.

[00:05:13]So let's behave ourselves. When your chief whip was speaking, she was listened to. And you need to accord everybody the same right. Can you please continue?

[00:05:25]>> Thank you honorable speaker, esteemed honorable speaker. Rule 85 with respect to uh impute improper motive to his excellency the president that he doesn't respect the constitution. And I must emphasize as a point anything negative against his excellency the president.

[00:05:47]The constitutional court has found issues relating to the root.

[00:05:54]>> Thank you honorable member. That order point of order is sustained. It is within the rules and you know it very well. Honorable members, I actually am suspending this discussion on the sequence of the program.

[00:06:10]>> We have no, you are not going to say that honorable ask respectively all other members who have got you. I've noted you honorable me and I've noted honorable matasha and I'm ruling that now we move to the questions to the president as it is in the order paper.

[00:06:28]Thank you very much.

[00:06:35]The only item on today's order paper is questions addressed >> to the president.

[00:06:41]Parties order. Honorable members.

[00:06:46]Honorable members, can you be in order?

[00:06:52]I have ruled.

[00:06:54]I've ruled. I've noted the leader of MK party. I have ruled and I've sustained the order in terms of what we are here to do before in this house and we are not having any other matter on the agenda.

[00:07:12]If you have concerns you can follow up and write as it is according to the rules if you are not happy with the rule that has just been made in terms of the ruling.

[00:07:25]>> Thank you speaker. The rules allow us to raise point of order to us and you can't out of order. You are out of order. You are doing what they did in 2022.

[00:07:37]Honorable member protecting A CONSTITUTION DELINQUENT.

[00:07:41]>> HONORABLE MEMBER COULD BE A CRIMINAL. I am naming you and the next thing you do that you will have to leave the chamber.

[00:07:48]>> Please speak and not waste the time of this house.

[00:07:59]Honorable members, I have made a ruling.

[00:08:08]I have made a ruling.

[00:08:12]Honorable members, I as the speaker of this house have the duty to ensure the smooth conduct. I've listened to your request and I've indicated that that does not arise. The motion that the member wants to bring will be brought here appropriately. She knows that she wrote a letter this afternoon and she can expect an answer and put that motion when it has not gone to the order.

[00:08:41]Honorable Ready, Honorable Ready, do you want to remain in the house?

[00:08:47]>> Better behave.

[00:08:49]Honorable members, can those of you with your hands up put them down?

[00:08:59]>> No.

[00:09:04]Can we go back to the order in >> that case? Honorable speaker, we cannot sit.

[00:09:16]>> Thank you.

[00:09:47]on. Federal members, those of you who want to leave the house, can you please do so orderly?

[00:09:59]Honorable members of the MK, honorable members of the KA, YOU ARE ACTUALLY CAUSING DISORDER.

[00:10:10]>> Can the site at arms please assist the members to go out?

[00:10:18]Can you please assist the members to get out of the house?

[00:10:26]>> Honorable members, >> use force with ready.

[00:10:29]>> We have got only one item on the agenda and that's the question addressed to the president.

[00:10:38]Parties have given an indication on which questions their members wish to pose. Supplementary questions.

[00:10:47]Adequate notices was given to parties for this purpose.