Parliament has referred EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu to the joint committee on ethics and members’ interests for assaulting a journalist on its premises. "The deputy speaker of the national assembly and the chairperson of the National Council of Provinces have confirmed that they have referred the assault of Netwerk24 reporter Adrian de Kock by EFF MP Floyd Shivambu to the [committee] for consideration‚" said Andisiwe Makinana‚ chairwoman of the parliamentary press gallery. "The [gallery] will wait for that parliamentary process to be followed," she said. Shivambu was filmed in March roughing up De Kock‚ who was waiting with other journalists outside a building where Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille’s DA disciplinary hearing was taking place. When De Kock saw Shivambu‚ he took pictures of him and tried to get comment from him about the inquiry. But Shivambu demanded that De Kock delete the pictures because he had not given permission for the pictures to be taken. Shivambu he...
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