MPs angry at Ramaphosa's suggestion that parliament is holding up GBV laws

Thandi Modise responded to President Cyril Ramaphosa's comments regarding GBV legislation 'being held up in parliament'. She and other parliamentarians denied this was true.National Assembly speaker Thandi Modise will write to the presidency in the wake of President Cyril Ramaphosa's comments on gender-based violence, to urge him to ensure cabinet ministers bring legislative amendments to parliament speedily.

“I will go a step further and follow up with the ministers who were supposed to have submitted the bills and ask them why,” she said.“I don't like being blamed. I take strong exception to being blamed for something I don't know because it's been done to me many times before,” she said. “We are not telling them how to write the bills, we are simply saying by now you should have, because this matter is ... because directly we represent the public too,” she said.

“But there isn't a single bill before parliament, so I don't understand why parliament last night was almost accused of holding up a process if there is nothing for us to hold up when there isn't a single bill before us.”

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