News24 | Nine years after shouting ‘pay support the money’ at Zuma-generation SONAs, EFF seeks damages from compelled ejections

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The EFF will opinion “constitutional damages” of R100 000 or R500 000 for the many MPs who were violently eradicated. (Nkosikhona Duma/News24)

Lawmakers need to now not anticipated to be handled bask in angels, but they can not be handled bask in devils for behaving badly.

This used to be the central argument of the EFF, who has returned to the Western Cape High Courtroom, this time to argue its MPs ought to be awarded the same get of “constitutional damages” given to the victims of the Existence Esidimeni scandal.

They were forcefully ejected from Parliament after protesting at two of then-president Jacob Zuma’s Recount of the Nation Addresses (SONA).