{"id":104715,"date":"2015-11-20T09:40:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T07:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=104715"},"modified":"2015-11-20T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T07:40:19","slug":"watch-zuma-finds-parliament-very-funny-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/104715\/watch-zuma-finds-parliament-very-funny-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Zuma finds Parliament very funny, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma was again criticized\u00a0 in Parliament on Thursday, for breaking out in fits of laughter during a questions and answers session.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My Laughing is not hurtful, it&#8217;s healthy,&#8221; Zuma said, as he continued to laugh in the National Assembly, during his last oral questioning session for the year.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time\u00a0 president Zuma has angered members of Parliament with his laughter, while discussing serious matters in the house.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today president Zuma laughed, while millions of South Africans suffer,&#8221; the Democratic Alliance Said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mcHRhI88nss\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Economic Freedom Fighters\u2019 (EFF) Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, was incensed by president Zuma. \u201cSpeaker, we must be taken seriously. The president answers a question, says absolutely nothing, and then he laughs. It means our questions are jokes here. I\u2019ve been telling him, this is not Trevor Noah\u2019s show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iGDpVEUIRcI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today Pres. Zuma laughed while millions of SAns suffer &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MmusiMaimane\">@MmusiMaimane<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThingsZumaLaughsAt?src=hash\">#ThingsZumaLaughsAt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/obIswzGk7B\">https:\/\/t.co\/obIswzGk7B<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nKrAG50Sgg\">pic.twitter.com\/nKrAG50Sgg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Democratic Alliance (@Our_DA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Our_DA\/status\/667367266107990017\">November 19, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on President Zuma<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Democracy is the brainchild of the ANC: Zuma\" target=\"_blank\">Democracy is the brainchild of the ANC: Zuma<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/103105\/watch-zuma-wants-stricter-gun-control-in-sa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch: Zuma wants stricter gun control in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/103385\/anc-comes-before-country-zuma\/\" target=\"_blank\">ANC comes before country: Zuma<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma was again criticized  in Parliament on Thursday, for breaking out in fits of laughter during a questions and answers session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26,1572],"class_list":["post-104715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline","tag-president-zuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104721,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104715\/revisions\/104721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}