Opposition parties want Parliament to be dissolved
Opposition parties in the National Assembly want Parliament to be dissolved as soon as President Jacob Zuma has been removed through a motion of no confidence.
The DA, EFF, COPE, UDM, FF Plus and the ACDP briefed the media on Monday.
The EFF has written to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Mbete, asking her to schedule their motion this week.
The party says failure to do so will result in urgent court action.
The motion is scheduled to be debated on the 22nd of February.
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DA leader Mmusi Maimane says Parliament has failed in its duty.
"It cannot be that we enter factional battles and seek to propose that we must support Cyril Ramaphosa or anybody from the ANC. It is the view of the collective that the ANC has been complicit in violating the Constitution and defending criminality. To insist that another person from the ANC must lead Parliament would be to undermine constitutionalism, and therefore we want to resort to Section 50 of the Constitution which calls for a dissolution of Parliament."
He says the dissolution of Parliament will allow for early elections.
EFF leader Julius Malema warns that South Africans should not get too excited about Ramaphosa.
"It is factions swapping seats. It is not a transition, we should call it swapping, from one corrupt fellow to another fellow. They are now dancing for their food because it is their time to eat."