Parties across SA’s political spectrum fear impeachment sabotage
Parliament’s rules committee explores how to prevent the governing party from subverting processes to unseat an errant president
Parties across the political spectrum are concerned about the danger of "majoritarianism" subverting any future attempt to impeach the president. The concern was expressed by members of the subcommittee of Parliament’s rules committee, which met on Wednesday to formulate procedures for an impeachment process. It was prodded into action by last month’s Constitutional Court ruling that it do this without delay. The subcommittee hopes to finalise by the end of March parliamentary rules for impeachment of a president, including their adoption by the National Assembly. The judgment was in the case brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the United Democratic Movement and the Congress of the People. They asked the court to find that the National Assembly had failed to put in place mechanisms and processes to hold President Jacob Zuma to account for failing to implement the remedial action ordered by former public protector Thuli Madonsela in relation to the misuse of state resourc...
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