The violation of a constitutional convention can amount to a constitutional crisis. Discuss with reference to the EFF’s parliamentary conduct. According to the new Oxford Companion Law the constitutional convention is defined as “a representative body, brought together to draft a new constitutional or to design or approve changes to an old one” (Crane and J. Conaghan, The new Oxford Companion Law. (2008) In terms of the South African Constitution that was introduced due of the first democratic elections in 1994. Owing to the old system being the Apartheid law, the South African history had huge implications on those who were not part of the superior race. The following essay will be discussion the Constitutional Convention that was violated by the EFF during the State of Nation Address I Cape Town. As it has been stated all over the media that the most recent shocking incident in the South African current affairs has had journalist writing articles and blogs after serious interviews regarding to what happened, has to do with The State of Nation Address (SONA) that took place on February 12, 2015 at 19h00. This incident escalated before the delivery had taken place. President Jacob Zuma was interrupted as soon as he started to deliver the state of the nation address in the National Assembly in Cape Town. It has been mentioned that the reason for the disrespectful interruption of his delivery is due to the EFF’s naked threats that the members had imposed on the president that “by asking him indicate when he’d pay back the money used for upgrades at his Nkandla residence”. As Zuma attempted to begin the address, members of the EFF party rose and interrupted by asking inappropriate questions such as “When is President Jacob Zuma going to pay back the money?” (City Press, 2015) Such incidents may have a huge impact on threatening the integrity of the constitution because this was a live feed where all the citizens are sa