Jacob Zuma should have testified under oath as part of impeachment probe
Parliament failed in its Constitutional obligation by not having effective mechanisms and processes in place for impeachment investigations and hearings, as part of its rules, the DA says
President Jacob Zuma should have been called to testify under oath as part of a broader impeachment investigation into his handling of the public protector’s report on Nkandla, the DA has argued in an affidavit. The DA has applied to intervene in the application to the Constitutional Court lodged by the EFF, the UDM and the COPE, in which the three parties argue that the same court’s judgment on Nkandla provided "prima facie" grounds for impeachment, requiring further investigation. The motion of no confidence, allowed for in section 102 of the Constitution, which may take place next week, is separate from a possible impeachment process, which is governed by section 89 of the Constitution. The application by the three opposition parties takes on the National Assembly for failing to institute an investigation into the President’s conduct, following the handing down of the Nkandla judgment in March 2016. They want the court to declare that Parliament did not put processes in place to ...
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