{"id":27102,"date":"2022-03-10T20:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T20:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?p=27102"},"modified":"2022-03-10T20:06:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T20:06:32","slug":"ramaphosa-to-face-first-motion-of-no-confidence-on-30-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosa-to-face-first-motion-of-no-confidence-on-30-march","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa to face first motion of no confidence on 30 March"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>President Cyril Ramaphosa will face his first<\/p>\n

motion of no confidence on 30 March.His Cabinet will face a similar motion on the same<\/p>\n

day.Both votes will be in the open, and this could<\/p>\n

delay the process as some opposition parties are unhappy about National<\/p>\n

Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s decision and could take further<\/p>\n

steps.At the National Assembly Programming Committee’s<\/p>\n

meeting on Thursday morning, Mapisa-Nqakula announced that both motions will be<\/p>\n

voted on and debated on 30 March. She said voting for both motions will be in<\/p>\n

the open.DA chief whip Natasha Mazzone said an open vote<\/p>\n

would be “very concerning” to members who might not want to toe the<\/p>\n

party line.She said an open vote would be tantamount to<\/p>\n

wasting time. She suggested that Mapisa-Nqakula take a legal opinion on the<\/p>\n

matter.Mapisa-Nqakula said she had taken a legal opinion.She said: I wouldn’t come and preside over this meeting without a legal opinion.”The environment in Parliament is not toxic at<\/p>\n

all.”<\/p>\n

She said South Africa had just come out of an<\/p>\n

election, and the Zondo Commission report will be presented to Parliament in<\/p>\n

June. She said it had been discussed openly already.She said if these things could be done, there was<\/p>\n

no reason why there couldn’t be an open vote.She said the only issue the DA raised was that<\/p>\n

members of the executive shouldn’t participate in the motion of no confidence<\/p>\n

in Cabinet.”I have ruled members of the executive will<\/p>\n

participate in the debate and the vote,” Mapisa-Nqakula said, adding that<\/p>\n

they were members of Parliament.According to DA deputy chief whip Siviwe Gwarube,<\/p>\n

things could be legally sound but make no sense where accountability was<\/p>\n

concerned.Mapisa-Nqakula said: If you want to take the decision on review, you can do so.She said the rules provided for voting in a hybrid<\/p>\n

system.<\/p>\n

ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina said the rules<\/p>\n

allowed MPs to vote against their party.”I don’t understand the issue now,” she<\/p>\n

said.Mapisa-Nqakula said she had made her ruling, and<\/p>\n

parties were welcome to make formal submissions on the matter to her. She said<\/p>\n

she would also ask Parliament’s legal services to provide copies of their<\/p>\n

advice to her to the parties.Voting in the open in a virtual setting means that<\/p>\n

chief whips will inform the table how many of their MPs are present and whether<\/p>\n

or not they support the motion.If an MP wants to vote differently from their<\/p>\n

party, it is then up to them to publicly say so. This is yet to happen.READ | Steenhuisen tables motion of no<\/p>\n

confidence in Ramaphosa’s Cabinet ‘of crooks, free-loaders’In March last year, the contentious vote on Public<\/p>\n

Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s impeachment was done in the open.ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe instructed ANC MPs<\/p>\n

to support the DA motion. Some ANC MPs \u2013 believed to be aligned to the<\/p>\n

so-called radical economic transformation (RET) faction \u2013 were opposed to<\/p>\n

supporting this motion. No ANC MP voted against the motion or abstained, but a<\/p>\n

few ANC MPs were absent.The ATM \u2013 who were not represented in Thursday’s<\/p>\n

meeting \u2013 lodged its motion of no confidence in Ramaphosa in early 2020. It was<\/p>\n

scheduled to be heard by the end of that year, but was delayed as the ATM<\/p>\n

challenged then-speaker Thandi Modise’s decision to reject a secret ballot for<\/p>\n

the vote on the motion.Mapisa-Nqakula has already indicated that the vote<\/p>\n

on the motion will not be secret.Last month, during the State of the Nation Address<\/p>\n

debate, DA leader John Steenhuisen announced that he had lodged a motion of no<\/p>\n

confidence in Cabinet. If this motion should pass, Ramaphosa would not be<\/p>\n

removed.If the ATM’s motions were to succeed, both<\/p>\n

Ramaphosa and his Cabinet would be removed.The committee also heard that the DA’s request for<\/p>\n

an urgent debate on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been ceded and will be<\/p>\n

debated on 15 March.<\/p>\n

We want to hear your views on the news. Subscribe to News24 to be part of the<\/p>\n

conversation in the comments section of this article.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About South-Africa<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. 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