'The member of the EFF started walking across the floor with other members of the EFF following her towards the ANC, and the ANC then started to retaliate.'
DA MP Annelie Lotriet, who was chairing the session, said Modise was forced to intervene as matters degenerated when EFF and ANC MPs threatened to attack each other during the induction session on law-making.Lotriet said: “The first round of questions went well and in the second round a member of the EFF stood up and started with a speech instead of asking a question. As I could hear from the interpretation he was also insulting the ANC, so the ANC got quite upset.
She added: “An ANC member jumped up and also complained, and I said please give me the opportunity to deal with this, but then a member of the EFF switched the microphone on and did not give me the opportunity in any way to deal with the matter. “She kept on talking and then it was a toing and froing between the EFF and the ANC. The member of the EFF started walking across the floor with other members of the EFF following her towards the ANC, and the ANC then started to retaliate.”
Lotriet said it was at that point that Modise was called in to diffuse the tension that lasted for around three minutes. “The speaker then came in and had to physically intervene between the two groups. She gave them a dressing down, which was necessary and we then proceeded … all in all it was three to four minutes.” - Additional reporting by Thabo Mokone
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