#Tweet2015: The public has its say on SONA

During the highs and lows of SONA2015, Twitter outdid itself, with tweeters inside Parliament suddenly becoming reporters (especially on those things the SATV cameras so obviously turned away from).

An excellent and speedy video tweet from JacarandaFM’s @MornéJK actually crashed SAPeople.com for a while, so many people wanted to see the EFF being confronted by security personnel and police.

Here’s the video for those who missed it: “Chaos in Parly”:

And of course, there were comments aplenty from inside and out the not-so-hallowed halls – the critical, the shocked and the sarcastic, not to mention the lighthearted – to add to the Twittersphere.

We bring you a few you might have missed:

@nathashajoseph (City Press editor)
When Julius Malema makes the most sense of the past 33 minutes, we are officially fecked.

@NickolausBauer (eNCA reporter)
The rand. The murder rate. Xenophobia. Eskom. Rape. Nope… We have this disgrace on our screens. Well done, our dear politicians.

@chestermissing
It’s not WWE, it’s WWEFF.

@chestermissing
Now the DA is threatening to leave. But they only made table reservations at Spur for 9pm, so they have nowhere to go.

@ewnupdates (Eyewitness News)
SONA2015 by numbers.

@StephenGrootes (Host of Midday Report on 702)
That’s right. He laughed.

@carienduplessis (City Press political reporter)
EFF MPs welcome DA outside by chanting pay back the money.

@justicemalala (Political commentator)
One must not forget that all this is happening because there is the small matter of a R246-million house on a hill in KZN.

@RoryPetzer (Entertainer, comedian, satirist)
The applause you hear at #SONA2015? That’s what it sounds like when someone likes their own Facebook status.

@DeepFriedMan (A musical comedian)
I can’t hear a word Zuma is saying above the sound of Nelson Mandela rolling in his grave.

@MapsMaponhane
In case you missed it, this is where #SONA2015 trended around the world:

@AfricaCheck (Fact-checking website)
The big words in Pres. Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address:

@SapaNews
“I almost fell asleep for the first time. I had to go out to get fresh air,” said ACDP leader Kenneth Meshoe.

@chestermissing
The ANC is enjoying their after #SONA2015 dinner. Dessert is a large slice of fokof pie.

@Sisonkemsimang
Can we have a re-vote? None of these people represent me.

@TimesLIVE tweet of Mangosutho Buthelezi’s headdress:

@ThuliMadonsela3 (Public prosecutor)
#DeepestGratitude to @Gertjohan Coetzee for sunset inspired dress and @GlamJozi for hair makeover

@AfricaCheck
Any security experts able to ID this specific device? Possibly a cellphone or RF jammer?

@AfricaCheck
Cellphone jamming illegal in SA according to 2011 ICASA document

@Eusebius (Author of ‘A Bantu In My Bathroom’)
I must say, chaos aside, the quality of comments and analysis from journalists, analysts, and you active citizen, have been great.

@Radio702
#Parliamenfights from around the world make #SONA2015 look pretty tame – click here.

@khayadlanga (Mail & Guardian columnist)
Mbeki on the #SONA2105 debacle. Very sober and on point:

@NandosSA
If your stomach is as empty as parliament, we got you.

And here’s a wrap-up in the ‘SONA Song’ by Shrish Hargoon…

http://youtu.be/MyqZUY6FfP4

Thank you Emden van der Mescht, Natasha Roodt, Mary Thompson, Nades Rochat, Sharon Dreyer and others for picture contributions.