The battle between the ANC and the EFF over the latter’s behaviour during its forceful removal from Parliament is far from over.

On Thursday‚ ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu accused EFF leader Julius Malema’s private security team of entering the parliamentary chamber with the Sergeant-at-Arms during Tuesday’s fractious session attended by President Jacob Zuma.

Mthembu said that ANC sources had seen that these individuals were protecting Malema.

Labeling this a security breach‚ he said the ANC has asked Parliament to conduct an investigation.

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Currently‚ the EFF MPs are on an automatic suspension for five days starting from the date of their eviction from the House.

A criminal complaint has also been lodged with the police after a glass entrance door to parliament was shattered‚ furniture damaged and clothes torn during the brawl.

But the EFF has challenged the rules of Parliament questioning why Zuma is allowed “security detail” inside the National Assembly and whether the bouncers evicting its MPs are actually employed by Parliament.

“We know for a fact that Zuma’s bodyguard formed part of the entourage that came to remove EFF MPs on many occasions. In fact‚ the two men who came to specifically remove the CIC (commander in chief) Julius Malema are not members of the Protection Service‚ but Zuma’s bodyguards‚” national spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said in a statement.

“The whole country also witnessed that as the scuffle broke out‚ some of Zuma’s bodyguards came into the chamber to circle him. This is despite the fact that when in parliament‚ Zuma is bound by the same rules as the rest of other MPs. It means his bodyguards must not be functional in the house. He must be protected under the rules that protect other Members of Parliament‚” Ndlozi said.

DA chief whip John Steenhuisen said the party had received reports that two of the so-called “white shirts” in the National Assembly during this week’s oral questions to the President session were in fact Malema’s “personal bodyguards” posing as members of parliamentary protection services.

“Further‚ that Parliament is currently investigating these claims and currently formulating charges against the relevant culprits. Close examination of video footage of Tuesday’s sitting shows what appears to be a man in a white shirt rush to Malema’s side during the EFF’s ejection from the NA and fight off other members of Parliament’s protection services‚ in an effort to protect him‚” said Steenhuisen.

He said if the reports were to be believed‚ it was clear that the EFF went into Tuesday’s sitting with an “explicit agenda to disrupt the day’s programme and meet violence with violence”‚ as Malema stated earlier this week.

 “The EFF’s devious plot and destruction of parliamentary infrastructure demonstrated that they are clearly not a party that can be trusted to uphold the rule of law and take country forward‚ and deserve South Africa’s condemnation‚” said Steenhuisen.