Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema, said his party will bring a motion of no confidence in Nelson Mandela Bay Executive Mayor, Athol Trollip on 6 April.
Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday during debate on an EFF motion for Land Expropriation Without Compensation, Malema said this would be a warning shot to the DA on the land issue.
Responding to the debate on his motion today, Malema said "on the 6 April, the day of Jan van Riebeck's arrival, the day of the formation of the Pan Africanist Congress by (Robert) Sobukwe and the hanging of Solomon Mahlangu, in honour of these people and also as a demonstration of our seriousness about this issue of land we will be passing a motion of no confidence on the mayor of PE as a warning shot to the DA."
Malema had earlier warned DA leader Mmusi Maimane that the DA's "stay in the Metro's is going to depend on the party's attitude on the issue of the Expropriation of Land Without Compensation".
The EFF leader also took aim at the ANC saying since it came to power in 1994 "they became drunk with luxury and glory, building false reconciliation without justice. It took the formation of the EFF 20 year later to revive the question of the dignity of our people in the need for our land," he said.
Meanwhile, former Rural Development Minister, Gugile Nkwinti, now heading up the Department of Water and Sanitation, said the governing party supports the motion, but with some amendments.
He said that Land Expropriation Without Compensation should be done in a way that improves food security and agricultural output.
"The ANC unequivocally supports the principle of land expropriation without compensation as moved by the EFF. We may disagree on the modalities but the principle we agree to and we are committed to implementing the resolution of the African National Congress which resonates with the resolution moved by the EFF," he said.
Nkwinti however, cautioned about the ongoing narrative that the land had been stolen from African people. "That is a false narrative. No one was asleep when land was taken. It was taken through brutal wars of colonialism. So, let us do away with this narrative that says land was stolen as if our people were asleep."
The EFF's motion was carried with objections from several parties including the DA and FFPlus.
