GDANSK, POLAND - SEPTEMBER 24: (SOUTH AFRICA AND POLAND OUT) Thandi Modise, chairperson of the National Council of Provinces visits the European Solidarity Centre (Europejskie Centrum Solidarnosci) on September 24, 2016 in Gdansk, Poland. Along with African and Polish officials and politicians, the visit and the meeting will also be attended by the Ambassador of South Africa in Poland; Simon Jabulani Ntombela. (Photo by Michal Fludra/Gallo Images Poland/Getty Images)
A virtual meeting of South African lawmakers has been disrupted by hackers who flooded the video call with pornographic images.
In the incident on Thursday, the hackers also hurled racial and sexual insults at the meeting’s chairwoman, Thandi Modise, who is the speaker of the National Assembly.
South Africa’s parliament is closed and all its meetings are currently held by video conference calls as the country remains under strict lockdown restrictions to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
A shocked Modise said that she had earlier warned about using the virtual meetings platform Zoom for the meeting. The parliamentary meeting later continued with a different link.
At least one other South African parliament video call has been similarly hacked.
Zoom has been facing criticism internationally as a result of reports of hackers who disrupt meetings by posting offensive content
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