Description
Added on the 22/05/2019 11:57:09 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
EFF political party leader Julius Malema reacts after having been taken out of Parliament during the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s keynote address in Parliament. The opposition lawmakers tried to block him from speaking. Walking out en masse, leftist opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), dressed in their trademark red overalls and worksuits, stormed the stage where Ramaphosa was waiting to deliver the speech. Armed security and police quickly jumped in and forced the MPs off stage. IMAGES
Several dozen demonstrators try to get on the stage where President Cyril Ramaphosa was to make his annual speech on the state of the country, they are intercepted by the security forces present there. Before that, the demonstrators disrupted the ceremony and asked for the resignation of the South African president, as well as the end of power cuts in the country. This comes amid an acute electricity crisis, which has left 60 million South Africans without electricity for hours a day. IMAGES
Several dozen demonstrators try to get on the stage where President Cyril Ramaphosa was to make his annual speech on the state of the country, they are intercepted by the security forces present there. Before that, the demonstrators disrupted the ceremony and asked for the resignation of the South African president, as well as the end of power cuts in the country. This comes amid an acute electricity crisis, which has left 60 million South Africans without electricity for hours a day. IMAGES
Images of the South African parliament as EFF party members interrupt President Cyril Ramaphosa's address to parliament over the alleged unreported theft of a large sum of cash from his farm. Ramaphosa is accused of complicity in buying the silence of burglars who allegedly broke into his Phala Phala cattle and game breeding farm in Bela Bela where they found $4 million in cash hidden in furniture. SOUNDBITE
The suspect accused of starting the blaze that ravaged South Africa's parliament appears at the Cape Town Magistrates Court to be charged for arson. The hearing is remanded until January the 11th. IMAGES
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
