EFF opens up case of fraud against Peace Mabe

The Economic Freedom Fighters has opened a case of fraud against Peace Mabe who was sworn in as an ANC councillor in Mogale City despite allegedly failing to resign as a Member of Parliament as required by the Constitution.

Mabe was nominated by the ANC as executive mayor of the city but lost the election for the position to the Democratic Alliance’s Lynn Pannall.

“The EFF case no# 1979/08/2016 was opened in Cape Town last night on the merit that she accepted a position as a councillor but did not resign from the National Assembly as is required by the Constitution that governs Parliamentary and Council issues‚” the EFF said in a statement.

Earlier on Wednesday‚ the DA’s chief whip in Parliament‚ John Steenhuisen‚ said once Mabe was sworn in as a councillor she no longer qualified to be a member of the National Assembly and her membership had thus ceased by default.

“However‚ once it was clear that she was unsuccessful in her bid to become the Mayor‚ Peace Mabe then simply jumped on a plane and took up her seat again in the NA‚ and does not appear to have been sworn in again as an MP in terms of section 29b of the NA rules‚” Steenhuisen said.

He added that he would be writing to the Speaker of the National Assembly to request that Mabe be denied entry onto the floor of the NA and be prevented from participating in committee meetings as a member of the NA until her membership to the NA has been duly processed and she has once again been sworn in as a member.

“I will also refer Peace Mabe to the Ethics Committee for her apparent violation of due process in this regard.”