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Protecting Freedom of Speech in Parliament: The Significance of National Interest

Who can forget that fateful day of the 2015 State of the Nation Address when the Economic Freedom Fighters were forcibly removed from the National Assembly? In authorising the brutal ejectment of the EFF from the National Assembly, the speaker relied on an Act of Parliament bearing the rather long-winded name of “Powers, Privileges and…