This includes an expanded no-go zone around Parliament, reams of barbed wire and a significant army presence.
Parliament has not been able to explain why the number of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) troops called in to help police maintain law and order has nearly trebled, from 168 three years ago, to more than 400.
It will be the last State of the Nation Address that Zuma will give as the African National Congress (ANC)’s leader, although his term as the country’s president expires only in 2019.
The ANC is expecting 10,000 people to attend its People’s Assembly on Cape Town’s Grand Parade.
