CRISIS AT PARLIAMENT
NEWS ANALYSIS: Zuma stripped naked by a handful of brazen EFF MPs
No South African president has been stripped naked and humiliated by an opposition party as President Jacob Zuma has been by the EFF. The party, a new entrant to the South African political scene with only 25 MPs but a significant youth following, has been ably led by firebrand Julius Malema, Zuma’s former ally. It sounds unbelievable that only a handful of EFF parliamentarians had elicited a deployment of 441 soldiers to "help maintain law and order" in the Mother City. The deployment smacked of panic, fear and paranoia. The emperor was rendered naked once again on Thursday night as has become traditional each time the president addresses Parliament. The EFF vowed ahead of the event to redeploy the most powerful weapon in its arsenal and Zuma’s Achilles heel — the Constitutional Court judgment on his Nkandla homestead. The EFF danced into the house in their red overalls and red T-shirts with the words "Fear Nothing" emblazoned on the back and on the front, drawing a line in the san...
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