Cape Town - Not everything the public finds interesting about activities in the parliamentary chambers are in the public interest, the Western Cape High Court heard on Friday.
Jeremy Gauntlett, for Parliament, told a full bench of judges that the institution had a policy restricting wide-angle shots in the case of grave disturbances and unparliamentary behaviour as a form of "anticipatory control".
Parliament had a right and responsibility to control unrestrained situations where hate speech might be broadcast or where there could be violence or demonstrations, he said.