King Misuzulu kaZwelithini had to be removed from the legislature by security officials on Friday during KZN’s State of the Province Address.
The incident took place on Friday at the Oval Cricket Stadium in Pietermaritzburg, where Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube was delivering her maiden State of the Province speech.
The premier was forced to take a seat after she had greeted the house.
The EFF interrupted Dube-Ncube and demanded that the MEC for Economic Development and ANC provincial chairperson Sboniso Duma should be the one to deliver the address.
“[The premier] is a liar,” said Mongezi Twala, chair of the EFF in KZN. “She went to the national Parliament and lied unprovoked to the nation.
“She claims that all victims of floods have been sorted out with accommodation. As we speak, those people are placed in unhealthy places at Durban South beach. Their kids have not even been able to go to school.”
Twala said Dube-Ncube is being controlled by Duma.
While the mood in the house was deteriorating, the security details of the king and his advisers came in and surrounded him. He was taken out of the house and did not return.
It was the first time since the dawn of democracy that the king had left the State of the Province Address.
Some members of the ANC in the Legislature stood up and threatened the EFF with a fistfight.
Speaker Nontembeko Boyce called the sergeant at arms and the Legislature’s security personnel to intervene – but the EFF overpowered them.
Boyce had to adjourn the house for 10 minutes. She called the police to take the EFF members out of the room, and eventually the State of the Province Address could be delivered.
Picture above: King Misuzulu kaZwelithini and Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube arriving at the State of the Province Address
Source: Celani Sikhakhane
