Chaos erupts at the Pan-African Parliament.

Scenes of chaos erupted at the 4th ordinary session of the Pan-African Parliament over leadership voting processes.
As far as I understand proceedings, conflict arose between southern African and eastern and western African leadership blocks.
The former want a presidency on a rotational basis, while the latter demand it should be vote-based.
A near-brawl (with some very ominous death threats) between South Africa's infamous Julius Malema and a Malian delegation was averted last week, allegedly when voting was delayed due to a staff member having tested positive for Covid-19.

But first, a brief definition of the Pan-African Parliament:

The Pan-African Parliament (PAP), also known as the African Parliament, is the legislative body of the African Union and held its inaugural session in March 2004. The PAP exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers, lasting for the first five years. Initially the seat of the Pan-African Parliament was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but it was later moved to Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Now for the more entertaining bits:

Scenes of chaos yesterday as both camps brawl, allegedly over access to the microphone:



Tensions were already high last week, when South Africa's EFF politician Julius Malema allegedly shouted death threats at a delegation from Mali.



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Apparently now members of the Malian delegation are afraid of being in South Africa (and I don't blame them), after they were allegedly chased out of the venue by police last Thursday, and I suppose Malema's threats, and our general history of lawlessness, political violence (also more recently by Malema's EFF party) and xenophobia.
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Nevertheless, it seems no charges have been laid (despite initial threats there-of), and commentary ranged from panic to things just getting a bit temporarily heated:

One person called for help after the members clashed, with some throwing punches: “Please call the police, it is urgent. You should call the police.”

A more phlegmatic ANC spokesperson (ah yes, the voice of reason) however called for calm over the incidents:

Leader of the South African delegation Amos Masondo has called for calm. “It’s disappointing that at this critical point in time, there are these differences and the temperatures have gone a bit high.”

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An assault charge is dropped, but the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) is at present suspended to "cool down":

JOHANNESBURG - African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Pemmy Majodina said she would no longer pursue charges of assault against Senegalese diplomat Djibril War after he kicked her in the Pan-African Parliament on Monday. She told journalists at the sidelines of a picket by the ANC Women's League outside the PAP on Tuesday afternoon that she had accepted his apology. War kicked Majodina during a scuffle in the PAP while she was attempting to defuse tension between the rules chairperson and Zimbabwe's Pupurai Togarepi. The ANCWL called for War to be suspended; it also said it wanted to send a strong message about gender-based violence in the continent. Majodina said she abandoned her bid to lodge a criminal case after leaders in the Parliament intervened. “I was consulted by leaders of the dedication in the entire continent to allow them to facilitate mediation and they did that yesterday, 20 minutes after the incident. They came to me with the perpetrator, the perpetrator cried and apologised.” Meanwhile, proceedings at the Pan-African Parliament sitting have been suspended after tensions escalated. Delegates were expected to vote for new leadership on Tuesday, however, the contentious elective process resulted in members resorting to chaos. Some have accused the clerk presiding over the session of being in possession of a letter from the African Union declaring the elective process illegal. Members are questioning the authenticity of that letter. “We want to know if we have a letter from AU. If we have the letter, why don’t you tell us about that letter? What is your interest on that letter Mr Clerk?” After much screaming and arguing the secretariat decided to suspended Tuesday’s sitting. “I am accordingly suspending this session to give you time to cool down and then at an appropriate time we come back and proceed.

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Now this is interesting (from my citation and source above):

Some have accused the clerk presiding over the session of being in possession of a letter from the African Union declaring the elective process illegal. Members are questioning the authenticity of that letter. “We want to know if we have a letter from AU. If we have the letter, why don’t you tell us about that letter? What is your interest on that letter Mr Clerk?”

A bona-fide letter?
Not an email or electronic post?
Is the AU still using snail-mail?
(Well, in that case, with South Africa's postal system being what it currently is, you could literally wait forever.)

I mean can't somebody email or Facebook the AU to ask them if they sent this letter?

The letter was again mentioned in news 6 hours ago, which also claims the two blocks are divided between the French (West Africa) and English speaking (southern Africa) nations.
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a reply to: halfoldman

These "unions" do nothing but sow confusion and disdain.

Coming to a theater near you...a reply to: halfoldman

What? Somebody doesn't want to follow the globalist plan?
Well, guess what?

Yawn, diplomacy can be so boring.

Little Britain:

What about the voices of the minorities?

In southern Africa the whites who have been here for 5 generations, and the indigenous Khoi and San people, since time immemorial?

They surely exist, but not in this "Parliament"?

I'd love to blame it all on "toxic masculinity".

But in fairness, some of those ladies also rushed into the fight.

a reply to: halfoldman

The only reason the West pressured South Africa into a democracy was to stop a nuclear capable nation that would've been anti-globalist.

It had nothing to do with human rights although human rights was rightly an issue.

Now we have human rights and have never been worse off as a nation with no hope of changing the course.


Lovely, isn't it?

Scenes of chaos yesterday as both camps brawl, allegedly over access to the microphone:

Tensions were already high last week, when South Africa's EFF politician Julius Malema allegedly shouted death threats at a delegation from Mali.

How very...African.