President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address got off to a rocky and rowdy start on Thursday evening when the EFF lived up to its promise to disrupt proceedings. 

After more than an hour of disruptions by EFF MPs speaker Thandi Modise briefly suspended the sitting. When it reconvened the EFF staged a walkout.  ..

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