#SouthAfrica Video of massive fist-fights amongst MPs and cops filmed by cellphone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE5x2W_2sJ8
Nov 14 2014 - Chaos broke out in South Africa's national assembly. And a cellphone video of the fighting between MPs and the police were downloaded on YouTube within minutes.
The government's direct broadcast from parliament was cut short -- just before the cellphone video continued to record the violent scenes. Four MPs have laid formal charges and two were injured when they were forcibly removed by the police.
The police stormed into parliament after an MP of the Economic Freedom Fighters party Ngwanamakwetle Mashabela
refused to relinquish the podium. She ranted that President Jacob Zuma was 'an thief" and refused to withdraw her insult.
Shortly thereafter the cops stormed in and started pulling on her arms with her screaming 'don't touch me'.
Angry Opposition party members flew to her defence and fists started contacting with jaws when the police shoved the MPs of the Democratic Alliance and the EFF
who were trying to intervene.
This video shows the fracas between MPs shortly after Mashabela was kicked out. The direct broadcast from parliament was cut short just before the cellphone video recorded the scenes.
Four MPs laid formal charges and two were injured.
http://maroelamedia.co.za/blog/nuus/suid-afrika/video-parlement-vuisgeveg-met-selfoon-afgeneem/
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Nov 13 2014 - Cape Town. South African Parliament (lower chamber) -- Four South African MPs -- Gordon Mackey, Dean Macpherson, Yusuf Cassim and Terri Stander were physically assaulted by the South African police under order of the parliamentary chairwoman after she refused to let anyone speak during the fillibuster'debate' during which ANC-MPs declared president Jacob Zuma not guilty of looting State funds to build his luxurious mini-city for his wives and children in Nkhandla, KZN. And moreover, there also was immediate censorship when government officials removed the November 14 2014 video from the South African Parliament's YouTube page showing the loud, angry diatribe by the chairwoman during the fillibuster campaign by the opposition parties whose MPs were trying to be heard during the debate.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-JR9Voq8LwxPCxKwqieRpQ
Ms Stander tweeted that she was assaulted and knocked over the bench of parliament during the fracas. Gordon Mackey tweeted that he had to go to hospitals for an injured arm and was black and blue after the beating by the police in parliament.
http://pic.twitter.com/oSZ6meaAgR
http://tweetedtimes.com/#!/mailandguardian
After the debate, rioting broke out around the streets near the parliamentary building when it became known that the ANC-MPs had exonerated President Jacob Zuma of any wrongdoings in regards to his building Nkhandla.
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