Last week the EFF were up to their old tricks in Parliament. Needing a new enemy, they turned on Pravin Gordhan. When Gordhan wanted to speak in his budget vote, some of the EFF members continually interrupted him. When the chairperson ordered them to leave the chamber, first one and then a number of MP’s got up and walked to the podium where Minister Gordhan was standing. They stood centimeters away from him until the parliamentary security eventually evicted them.

It was the most brazen act of bullying I had ever seen, outside of…