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<h1 class="entry-title">Polokwane Council Meeting delayed due to EFF disruptions</h1>
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According to Review journalist, Nelie Erasmus, the EFF raised a
motion to speak in their mother tongue during the meeting, which has led
to delays. </div>
<time class="entry-date" datetime="2018-05-30T12:30:24+00:00">4 hours ago</time>
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<p></p><p>POLOKWANE – Erasmus, who is inside the council chambers at
Jack Botes Hall, says due to the EFF insisting on speaking in their
mother tongue, as it is Africa Month, the meeting was disrupted for half
an hour.</p>
<p>According to rules during seatings of council, the language policy
needs to be finalised and translation enabled before it can be done but
when the Speaker of Council noted that, the EFF disagreed.</p>
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<p>The second disruption came after the party wouldn’t allow the budget
to be discussed first as Mayor Nkadimeng had to attend an urgent Salga
meeting.</p>
<p>“The arrangement to discuss the budget first was discussed and
approved during a caucus meeting prior to the council meeting,” says
Erasmus.</p>
<p>She adds that every sentence that is being said in council is having to be translated for the EFF.</p></div>
<br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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