{"id":121715,"date":"2016-05-17T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T11:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/121715\/top-5-sa-parliament-moments-we-wont-forget-anytime-soon\/"},"modified":"2016-05-17T13:55:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T11:55:01","slug":"top-5-sa-parliament-moments-we-wont-forget-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/05\/17\/top-5-sa-parliament-moments-we-wont-forget-anytime-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 SA Parliament moments we won&#8217;t forget anytime soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma makes his required once-a-term appearance at the National Assembly today, and is expected\u00a0to respond to pressing questions by members of parliament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.gov.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parliament<\/a>\u00a0proceedings got off to a rough start on 4 May when the President made his first appearance since the courts made two damning rulings against him (one of them being the Concourt ruling that the President should pay back the money for Nkandla).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It was on this day that members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economicfreedomfighters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)<\/a>\u00a0were ejected from the National Assembly and things turned very ugly.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s gathering at parliament is expected to be yet another spectacle. Here are some of the most shocking moments from this year\u2019s proceedings.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h2>1. Mmusi Maimane tackles Gupta and Zuma link<\/h2>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vBnZEoTG4q8' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2. DA walks out of Parliament<\/h2>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/i7kLTL_4wvU' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>3. \u00a0Zuma asked to account for his actions<\/h2>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/SEInTZeI2Ck' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>4. &#8220;You are talking rubbish&#8221;<\/h2>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9lHSw3CXgNY' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"yt watch-title-container\"><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"yt watch-title-container\"><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"EFF - Rubbish, Rubbish Rubbish...\"><\/span>5.\u00a0\u00a0EFF members are removed by Parliament Protection Services<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EFF forcibly removed by Parliament protection services\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/srbDPDu-dMU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='bb604f3417812f7e9035c6b79ca13719'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are set to get heated as parliament reconvenes today. Here\u2019s a look at some of the moments from parliament 2016 that kept us glued to our screens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":121716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[3174,3345,11028,11029,6554,3732,3540,2362],"class_list":["post-121715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-anc","tag-eff","tag-julius-malema","tag-national-assembly","tag-parliament","tag-politics","tag-president-jacob-zuma","tag-south-africa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["anc","EFF","Julius Malema","National Assembly","parliament","politics","president Jacob Zuma","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}