{"id":123913,"date":"2016-05-17T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T13:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=123913"},"modified":"2016-05-17T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T13:35:49","slug":"watch-violence-erupts-in-sa-parliament-as-eff-is-ejected-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/123913\/watch-violence-erupts-in-sa-parliament-as-eff-is-ejected-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Violence erupts in SA Parliament as EFF is ejected &#8211; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riot police arrived at Parliament after EFF MPs fought tooth and nail as protection officers forced them out of the National Assembly chamber on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>They grabbed on to anything they could as they were shoved across the marble floor of the building.<\/p>\n<p>A pedestal and benches were used to prevent their eviction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Push, push,&#8221; the officers ordered as EFF members grabbed the door frames. Shoes, paperwork, and pens flew through the air.<\/p>\n<p>When the officers had pushed them out of the Old Assembly Poorthuys entrance, objects were thrown at the glass, cracking it.<\/p>\n<p>EFF members grabbed the fire extinguishers at the entrance and opened them on the officers, shouting for the key to the big wooden door.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8K6fpJ62hfk\" width=\"640\" height=\"337\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy: Eyewitness News on Youtube<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/riot-police-at-parliament-after-eff-thrown-out-20160517\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Parliament<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/123093\/watch-da-rips-into-cyril-ramaphosa-in-parliament\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: DA roasts Cyril Ramaphosa in Parliament<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/116310\/watch-da-roasts-zuma-in-parliament-over-salary-increase\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: DA roasts Zuma in Parliament over salary increase<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/113115\/watch-rubbish-debate-sends-sa-parliament-into-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: \u201cRubbish\u201d debate sends SA Parliament into chaos<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/122519\/watch-eff-mps-physically-removed-from-the-national-assembly\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: EFF MPs physically removed from the National Assembly<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riot police arrived at Parliament after EFF MPs fought tooth and nail as protection officers forced them out of the National Assembly chamber on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":41237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-123913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123913","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123919,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123913\/revisions\/123919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}