South African's President Jacob Zuma deploys troops to state address SONA

Political parties have questioned the legality of President Jacob Zuma's move to have 441 soldiers help Police maintain “law and order” at the opening of Parliament.
 
The parties say the deployment violates the separation of powers, for personal use, adding that the move is a declaration of war on the country’s citizens.

The parties argue that the military are people who get deployed for war and whose training is about killing the enemies of the state. 

They maintained that the country has a duty to defend Parliament as a House of the people but the army does not belong to President Zuma.

A Constitutional law expert backed the claims saying the executive cannot deploy the army to another branch of government.

SOURCE: NEWS24