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The World Tonight: Punches thrown in South African parliament

Punches thrown in South African parliament

09/02/2017

BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, Punches thrown in South African parliament

President Zuma's critics disrupt his State of Nation speech.

There are chaotic scenes in the South African parliament as members of the opposition are dragged out by security guards.

Chaotic scenes in the South African parliament as members of the opposition are dragged out by security guards. 
We debate the government's decision to stop taking in unaccompanied child refugees from the Continent. 
Why the government of Kenya is trying to close the world's biggest refugee camp. 
And Andrew Lloyd Webber becomes the first composer in more than sixty years to have four shows running on Broadway.

(Picture: Security staff trying to eject EFF party MPs from South Africa's parliament
Credit: REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham).

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