DA goes to court to have Parliament army deployment declared unconstitutional and illegal.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has filed an application in the High Court in Cape Town seeking a declaration that the deployment of the army in the Parliamentary precinct for non-ceremonial purposes was unconstitutional and unlawful.

This is after President Jacob Zuma’s state of the nation address descended into chaos on Thursday night amid claims that armed soldiers were deployed to bully opposition MPs and journalists.

EFF MPs were violently ejected from the Chamber by parliamentary protection officers believed to be members of the South African Police Service. The EFF MPs were forced out of the house after they raised numerous points of orders‚ delaying Zuma’s address by more than an hour.

Bekezela Phakathi.

Full story at Times Live.