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Added on the 09/02/2023 19:04:58 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Several dozen demonstrators try to get on the stage where President Cyril Ramaphosa was to make his annual speech on the state of the country, they are intercepted by the security forces present there. Before that, the demonstrators disrupted the ceremony and asked for the resignation of the South African president, as well as the end of power cuts in the country. This comes amid an acute electricity crisis, which has left 60 million South Africans without electricity for hours a day. IMAGES
Pro-Zuma (Jacob Zuma)ANC members sing while arriving at the ANC conference. Outside the premises, expelled African National Congress member Carl Niehaus demonstrates alongside other with signs reading "Ramaphosa must go". IMAGES
Images of the South African parliament as EFF party members interrupt President Cyril Ramaphosa's address to parliament over the alleged unreported theft of a large sum of cash from his farm. Ramaphosa is accused of complicity in buying the silence of burglars who allegedly broke into his Phala Phala cattle and game breeding farm in Bela Bela where they found $4 million in cash hidden in furniture. SOUNDBITE
South African lawmakers from the African National Congress (ANC), which won 230 out of 400 seats on May 8, are officially sworn in and will formally elect the head of state in the parliament's first post-election sitting. IMAGES of the swearing in
Pro-Palestinian protesters gather near the British Parliament in the latest demonstration in London calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).