{"id":144037,"date":"2016-11-22T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T10:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=144037"},"modified":"2016-11-23T10:11:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T08:11:26","slug":"watch-brouhaha-in-parliament-after-zuma-called-jz-783","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/144037\/watch-brouhaha-in-parliament-after-zuma-called-jz-783\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Brouhaha in Parliament after Zuma called &#8216;JZ 783&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new day, a new clash in Parliament. This time it was DA MP Denise Robinson who started the ruckus after she referred to president Jacob Zuma, as &#8216;JZ 783&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The number relates to the <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/139803\/zumas-lawyers-must-argue-in-open-court-why-they-want-to-dodge-corruption-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\">783 fraud, racketeering and corruption charges<\/a> charges against the president.<\/p>\n<p>No sooner were the words out of her mouth when the ANC African National Congress called for Robinson to withdraw her comment, calling the term offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Mbete sided with the ANC, calling the reference derogatory, and asked Robinson to withdraw her comment.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson, along with DA chief whip John Steenhuisen, who demanded to be heard, declined to do so after questioning how the term could be viewed as derogatory.<\/p>\n<p>Following a brouhaha Mbete asked Robinson to leave the podium, at which point Steenhuisen and DA party members staged a walkout.<\/p>\n<p>Steenhuisen said that Mbete had poor understanding of the laws of Parliament, adding that he would see her in court, again.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2_VzjxYQDmU\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/136429\/watch-zumas-cringe-worthy-interview-on-chinese-television\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: Zuma\u2019s cringe-worthy interview on Chinese television<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new day, a new clash in Parliament. This time it was DA MP Denise Robinson who started the ruckus after she referred to president Jacob Zuma, as &#8216;JZ 783&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-144037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144037","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=144037"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144149,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144037\/revisions\/144149"}],"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=144037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}