Parliament – An Economic Freedom Fighters MP was booted from the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Thursday for comparing President Jacob Zuma to a giant wave.

“Today we are listening to a man whose view of democracy is as twisted and dangerous as a tsunami telling us about what ought to be done to ensure democracy benefits all South Africans,” Vusiwana Mtileni said as he responded to Zuma’s annual address to the NCOP.

ANC MPs jumped to the President’s defence, and asked that Mtileni’s comments be ruled out of order.

NCOP chairwoman Thandi Modise agreed, saying: “In this particular instance you are deliberately impugning on a member of this Parliament.”

Zuma ceased to be a member of Parliament after MPs voted him into his position during a National Assembly sitting in May last year.

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