A former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MP, whose children were thrown out of private school and whose bakkie was repossessed after the party expelled him for refusing to move to a different municipality, is taking the party to court.
Emmanuel Mtileni has taken the party and the national council of provinces (NCOP) to court and is demanding to be reinstated to the seat he held in the council for just more than two years.
Mtileni lost his NCOP seat when the EFF sought to redeploy him to a municipality as a councillor following the August 3 local government elections. He was later expelled from the party for refusing to vacate his seat as a permanent delegate for Limpopo in the NCOP.
He now wants the court to direct the EFF to restore his membership of the party, together with all the benefits. He also wants the NCOP to reinstate him on its payroll as an MP.
In court papers, Mtileni details the financial implications of his removal from Parliament and how the move has badly affected his children, for whom he could no longer pay tuition fees.
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