{"id":968371,"date":"2024-07-11T03:42:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T03:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968371"},"modified":"2024-07-11T03:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T03:42:25","slug":"eff-opposed-to-zibis-election-as-scopa-chair-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/eff-opposed-to-zibis-election-as-scopa-chair-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EFF opposed to Zibi\u2019s election as SCOPA chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Parliament says it\u2019s opposed to the election of the leader of Rise Mzansi, Songezo Zibi as the chairperson of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA).<\/p>\n<p>The African National Congress (ANC) nominated Zibi for the position which was generally reserved for opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p>EFF MP Ntombovuyo Mente says they are not opposed to Zibi as an individual.<\/p>\n<p>But she insists that Rise Mzansi is not an opposition party because it is part of the Government of National Unity (GNU).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also rejecting this not because we are rejecting you as a person, but we reject the principle. The convention of this Parliament has been that opposition must chair SCOPA. And as things stand, given the 29th May outcomes and the decisions afterwards, this country will be governed with the government of national unit which your party is part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not consider your party as an opposition. We consider it as government. And therefore, on those bases we do not agree that you should be the one that is chairing,\u201d adds Mente.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is the full interview with Songezo Zibi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fu125P6c4IE?si=MWyEtpqshFaYmFqt\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Parliament says it\u2019s opposed to the election of the leader of Rise Mzansi, Songezo Zibi as the chairperson of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA). The African National Congress (ANC) nominated Zibi for the position which was generally reserved for opposition parties. EFF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":968372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1909,246,2311,617,321,310,244,1047],"class_list":["post-968371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc","tag-economic-freedom-fighters","tag-eff","tag-gnu","tag-government-of-national-unity","tag-rise-mzansi","tag-scopa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}