Democracy the victim of Parliament chaos – analysts

Posted: 13th February 2015/Under: News/By: SPII

Cape Town – South Africa’s hard-won democracy, symbolised by the late liberation hero Nelson Mandela, was the main victim of the chaos in Parliament during President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address, commentators said on Friday.

Radical lawmakers who interrupted Zuma to demand he “pay back the money” spent on upgrades to his private residence were dragged kicking and fighting out of Parliament by a large force of security officials on Thursday night.

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