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EFF MP reportedly restrained by colleagues after insults thrown in Parliament

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Parliament has once again been the site of an almost-physical skirmish as EFF MP Makoti Khawula and ANC MP Khaya Magaxa exchanged insults during a correctional services budget vote debate.

reported that while Minister of Justice Ronald Lamola was in the process of delivering his address, Khawula complained that the parliamentary translation service from English to isiZulu had not been made available.Khawula, taking umbrage at the provocation, launched into a retaliatory verbal assault and said:"You are calling me dumb…," before adding in Zulu:"I can show you now who is the dumb one". She got up and"charged" towards Magaxa.

"Honorable Ma' Khawula, members of the ANC, some of them, Honorable Magaxa, I'm aware that she has been talking to you directly, that is totally unacceptable Honorable Magaxa. Because you were not supposed to have said anything Honourable Magaxa. Could you please apologise for your behaviour?" said Ntombela. "Ma' Khawula, you have used seriously insulting words.

that an induction session at the Old Assembly in Parliament last month was marred by a confrontation between ANC and EFF MPs and had to be defused by an angry Speaker, Thandi Modise. More recently, members of the EFF were physically removed from chambers where Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan was delivering his budget vote address after they stormed the floor to prevent Gordhan from speaking in what Modise called ''unacceptable conduct" towards the public enterprises minister"

 

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