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Zuma impeachment calls grow after court rules on home upgrade scandal
Source: The Guardian
Zuma impeachment calls grow after court rules on home upgrade scandal
South Africa’s constitutional court says parliament failed to hold the country’s president to account over state-funded upgrades to rural residence
Ruth Maclean
Fri 29 Dec ‘17 15.18 GMT
South Africa’s highest court has ruled that the parliament failed to hold President Jacob Zuma to account in a scandal over state-funded upgrades to his country residence, fuelling opposition calls for him to be impeached.
The constitutional court ordered the national assembly to make rules that allow the president to be impeached, adding to Zuma’s difficulties after he was replaced last week by Cyril Ramaphosa as leader of the ruling African National Congress.
Frustrated by setbacks in the national assembly, the leftwing Economic Freedom Fighters and other small opposition parties went to court as part of their campaign to impeach Zuma before a general election in 2019.
Last year, the court found that Zuma had violated the constitution when he refused to pay back public money spent on multimillion-pound upgrades to his rural home at Nkandla, in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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South Africa’s constitutional court says parliament failed to hold the country’s president to account over state-funded upgrades to rural residence
Ruth Maclean
Fri 29 Dec ‘17 15.18 GMT
South Africa’s highest court has ruled that the parliament failed to hold President Jacob Zuma to account in a scandal over state-funded upgrades to his country residence, fuelling opposition calls for him to be impeached.
The constitutional court ordered the national assembly to make rules that allow the president to be impeached, adding to Zuma’s difficulties after he was replaced last week by Cyril Ramaphosa as leader of the ruling African National Congress.
Frustrated by setbacks in the national assembly, the leftwing Economic Freedom Fighters and other small opposition parties went to court as part of their campaign to impeach Zuma before a general election in 2019.
Last year, the court found that Zuma had violated the constitution when he refused to pay back public money spent on multimillion-pound upgrades to his rural home at Nkandla, in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/29/south-africa-parliament-jacob-zuma-court
