The EFF's red overalls and maids' uniforms are objectionable to the ANC because they are an uncomfortable reminder of how far the ruling party has strayed from the working class it claims to represent.
This is the view of the EFF as it prepares to ask the courts to prohibit more expulsions of its members from the Eastern Cape and Gauteng legislatures for refusing to wear formal attire.
Seven EFF MPLs were forcibly removed from the Gauteng legislature earlier this week after Speaker Ntombi Mekgwe ruled that their red overalls were inappropriate in the legislature.
"People think politics is something out there but [for us] this is a very serious political issue," said EFF leader Dali Mpofu..
Said EFF "commander-in-chief" Julius Malema: "They are saying we should be dressed properly in the legislature but, for us, [what we wore] was proper."
Briefing reporters in Johannesburg yesterday, Malema said EFF supporters had voted the party into the assemblies "so that they could see themselves represented in parliament".
"The EFF is taking both the Gauteng and Eastern Cape legislatures to court for an urgent interdict to stop them from expelling EFF members on the basis of dress code.
"It is shameless that parliaments have not accepted that parliament should be about ideas and not dress codes," he said.
The EFF will hold internal elections between now and November 30, culminating in a "national people's assembly" in December.
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