"I can only confirm the office receiving the threat, As for the timeline, I am not at liberty to say."
EFF central command team member Veronica Mente also could not tell when the party had reported the "threat" to the minister of police other than saying it was "before Sona".
Said Mente: "The issue of the threat on the life of the CIC has been a long-standing issue since last year and SAPS has been investigating this matter and they even did security assessment on our president and afforded him protection.
"So the updates on all the threats have been happening continuously based on information we are receiving and pass it over to the police.
"This threat has now changed direction because [the] previous one was something else but this latest one came closer to home in that it was going to happen in the parliament precinct."