White shirts called in after EFF member ignores Black Rod

28 August 2015 - 12:42
By Bianca Capazorio

Parliament's controversial white-shirted “bouncers” were called in to remove an MP for the first time since the new rules were passed allowing disruptive members to be removed. But the female Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MP was not from the often chaotic National Assembly‚ where the new rules were said to have been introduced to deal with her firebrand party‚ but in the normally staid National Council of Provinces (NCOP).

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