POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: Opposition parties to make new attempt to remove Zuma
The Constitutional Court will hear on Tuesday an application to force Zuma’s impeachment, writes Genevieve Quintal
Opposition parties are making another attempt this week to have President Jacob Zuma removed from office while he is at the Brics summit in China. The Constitutional Court will hear on Tuesday the application by the EFF, the United Democratic Movement (UDM) and the Congress of the People to force Zuma’s impeachment. The parties want the court to rule that National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete must order action to be taken against the president. The DA has applied to intervene in the application, in which the three parties argue that the same court’s judgment on Nkandla provided prima facie grounds for impeachment, requiring further investigation. The opposition parties have taken on the National Assembly for failing to institute an investigation into the conduct of the president after the Nkandla judgment in March 2016. They want the court to declare that Parliament did not put processes in place to hold Zuma to account. The DA argues in its application that Parliament failed in it...
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