South Africa’s Parliament has embraced technology to keep tabs on lazy MPs.<\/p>\n
The National Assembly\u2019s 400 members and National Council of Provinces\u2019 90 delegates make up the Members of Parliament who represent South Africans.<\/p>\n
Parliament has now installed biometric finger scanners to record when these politicians pitch up for sittings.<\/p>\n
The new biometric system replaces the old one where MPs signed a piece of paper and put it into a box to be counted manually.<\/p>\n
But some opposition members say while parliament can now quickly and accurately record MPs attendance, it’s still up to the party’s chief whips to censure absent MPs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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