Malema has struck back at Mbete, saying he thinks Mbete is calling for his assassination for calling him a cockroach.
Speaker of the National Assembly Baleka Mbete called Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema a cockroach and warned ANC party members to prepare for war while speaking at the ANCs North West provincial conference in Mafikeng on Saturday.
Malema said on Saturday: “I think Baleka is calling for my assassination. If I am killed tomorrow people must know I was killed by Baleka and the ANC.”
He went on to say: “We know what happened to people who were called cockroaches in Rwanda. I am not scared. I am not used by third forces. Member of the EFF must also ready themselves [to fight back].”
She also reportedly took great delight in telling members how the ANC had ejected the EFF from Parliament.
Mbete has come under considerable fire in the past few days after ordering security to forcibly remove EFF members from the National Assembly on Thursday night during President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address.
The DA Chief Whip John Steenhuisen said Mbete is unfit to be a Speaker of the National Assembly.
However, National Council of Provinces chairperson Thandi Modise justified the decision to eject the EFF from Parliament during Thursday’s State of the Nation address, claiming the house is ‘empowered’ to call security