{"id":123993,"date":"2016-05-18T08:55:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T06:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=123993"},"modified":"2016-05-18T09:36:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T07:36:58","slug":"violence-will-be-met-with-violence-malema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/123993\/violence-will-be-met-with-violence-malema\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence will be met with violence: Malema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EFF leader Julius Malema says that the party will not rest nor stop its disruptive ways until president Jacob Zuma resigns &#8211; and any violence towards his party will be met with violence in turn.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking to EFF members and the media after EFF MPs were once again forcibly removed from Parliament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Riot police were called in to remove the MPs after they refused to let the president continue with a Q&amp;A session in Parliament. The expulsion turned violent as MPs fought back against the police.<\/p>\n<p>There was pushing and shoving and punching &#8211; and once the EFF was out, the MPs took fire extinguishers and other objects and threw them at the building.<\/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>Malema said violence would be met with violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These bouncers must know that if they give violence, we will respond with violence. We&#8217;re not scared; we&#8217;re debating in parliament. Anyone who manhandles us must know we&#8217;ve got the same capacity,&#8221; Malema said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one has a monopoly on violence. This parliament will never be the same.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zuma is not our president. The day he breached the constitution, that&#8217;s the day he kissed the office of president goodbye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The EFF returned to Parliament on Tuesday for the first time since being previously suspended for disruptive behaviour while the House was in session.<\/p>\n<p>Leading up to the Municipal Elections to be held on 3 August 2016, Malema&#8217;s rhetoric has become increasingly violent, with threats from the EFF leader to take up arms against the government and to take back land with no compensation.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Malema&#8217;s campaigning, the ANC has called him treasonous, and says he should be criminally charged.<\/p>\n<p>The main opposition party, the DA, has condemned the EFF&#8217;s disruptive behaviour, saying it impedes MPs jobs to represent their constituents and speak on their behalf in Parliament.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on government<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"High unemployment in SA is apartheid\u2019s fault: Zuma\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/123941\/high-unemployment-in-sa-is-apartheids-fault-zuma\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">High unemployment in SA is apartheid\u2019s fault: Zuma<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Watch: Violence erupts in SA Parliament as EFF is ejected \u2013 again\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/123913\/watch-violence-erupts-in-sa-parliament-as-eff-is-ejected-again\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Watch: Violence erupts in SA Parliament as EFF is ejected \u2013 again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"This is the cost of Zuma\u2019s presidency from 2009 to 2016: DA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/123903\/this-is-the-cost-of-zumas-presidency-from-2009-to-2016-da\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is the cost of Zuma\u2019s presidency from 2009 to 2016: DA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFF leader Julius Malema says that the party will not rest nor stop its disruptive ways until president Jacob Zuma resigns &#8211; and any violence towards his party will be met with violence in turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26,6369],"class_list":["post-123993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline","tag-malema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123993","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=123993"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124015,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123993\/revisions\/124015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}