Parliament’s double-header of no-confidence motions turned into a mishmash of rules and procedure squabbling that led to the first fixture being adjourned when the proposer refused to play ball. The second part unfolded into a spectacle of insults across the — clearly inaptly named — Good Hope Chamber.
The spectacle may have been front and centre — ANC Chief Whip Pemmy Majodina didn’t make the vote as she was locked out after failing to be in the chamber before the bells for the vote stopped. But it’s the fraught interchanges on the motion of no confidence in President Cyril Ramaphosa that showcased fractured parliamentary politics.
Members of Parliament at the National Assembly on 30 March 2022 before debating motions of no confidence tabled by the DA and the ATM. ATM leader Vuyolwethu Zungula had tabled a motion of no confidence in President Cyril Ramaphosa and DA leader John Steenhuisen had tabled a motion of no confidence in the Cabinet.
“I don’t want this House to say I declined to move,” he argued. “We are not proceeding. We are not withdrawing, up until this matter is finalised in the courts.”Without being moved, a motion cannot proceed. And unless it is withdrawn under Rule 128, the motion stays on the order paper and under Rule 90 no other political party can bring a similar no-confidence motion.
Key here are two points signalling institutional fracture — the role of the programming committee and the sub judice rule. “We warned you about it last week. We asked for this to be scheduled after recess, but it seemed you wanted to deal with it in haste… At the [programming committee] the Deputy Speaker referred this to you for your decision. When you are expected to make that decision, it’s almost [that] we are playing footsie footsie.”
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