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Lester Kiewit spoke with the ACDP’s Steven Swart on Cape Talk this morning about an incident during a online portfolio meeting where an “unusual, inappropriate noise” was apparently made by an MP.
According to Swart, “the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development was holding a meeting on 14 May, when an unusual sound ‘of an adult or sexual nature’ was heard.”
Swart lamented, “Our rules make it very clear that when you are in online meetings, you have to conduct yourself accordingly. You have to make sure the camera is focused on you, and you have to make sure that you are muted at the very least. It is very inappropriate and embarrassing!”
Nobody seems to know who made the noise, and Swart was definitely not going to recreate it on air, but Parliament said it would investigate.
Come on, politicians, get a different chat room. Perhaps the rules should henceforth include “no watching Pornhub offscreen during portfolio meetings”.
You can listen to the whole conversation here.
[Source: Cape Talk]
