Constitutional Court must force Parliament to censure Zuma, Julius Malema says
‘The Constitutional Court cannot say this person acts unconstitutionally and it ends there and nothing happens’, the EFF leader says
The EFF will approach the Constitutional Court in a bid to force Parliament to take disciplinary action against President Jacob Zuma, party leader Julius Malema said on Tuesday. In 2015, the same court found that Zuma had violated the Constitution in his handling of the public protector’s report into nonsecurity upgrades at his Nkandla home. The EFF has since referred to Zuma as an illegitimate president. "The Constitutional Court can’t say this person acts unconstitutionally and it ends there and nothing happens," Malema told journalists in Johannesburg. "You are rendering the Constitutional Court unless. You are doing what they [the ANC] did with the public protector’s remedial action." Malema said the EFF would approach the highest court in the land for direct access. It wanted the court to either compel Parliament and National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete to either impeach Zuma or make him face a disciplinary hearing. "It can’t be business as usual. We want the court to compel ...
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