The EFF’s five MPLs in the Bhisho legislature are set to forfeit half their salaries in February after being found guilty of failing to adhere to the institution’s dress code. The red berets’ representatives in the Eastern Cape provincial legislature were taken to task after they wore their red overalls during a sitting in late 2024. The legislature has confirmed that it intends to dock 15 days’ pay from the MPLs’ salaries this month.
The party has vowed to challenge the “unjust decision” in the courts. The EFF MPLs were summoned to appear before the ethics committee on October 29 2025, for allegedly violating the house’s policy on the dress code for members and staff serving in the house or committees. The party’s Eastern Cape leader, Zilindile Vena, said on Friday the ruling was nothing but a punishment.
“The EFF was invited by the ethics committee, shortly after we had tabled a motion on traditional leaders they did not like. “We were told that we will be barred from participating [in the house] as long as we are wearing the red overalls, which was a shock to us,” Vena said. “We presented our case to the committee and after some time they got back to us and told us that they found us guilty [of violating the code].
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“On December 12, they [ethics committee] took their report to the house, where their recommendation was that we must be docked money that should not exceed 15 days.” The EFF MPLs were charged on two counts of conduct unbecoming of a house member. The first count related to the violation of the dress code.
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