Zuma impeachment bid: EFF calls for multi-party committee
The EFF has presented its application for Parliament to institute impeachment proceedings against the President.
Calling their bid extremely urgent, advocate for the party Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has told the Constitutional Court that the National Assembly's failed to hold President Jacob Zuma and the executive to account.
Ngcukaitobi says there is a case for impeachment against Zuma. He's presented what he's called the heart of the case.
"The first relates to whether or not Parliament has failed in its obligation to scrutinise executive conduct and upon that scrutiny, determine how to hold the executive accountable. The case here engages the head of the executive - the president himself.
"As I will demonstrate in the course of my argument - the case engages the president in relation to his personal and official conduct," he says.
Hearing tomorrow 10: Has the National Assembly failed to hold the President accountable for violations of the Constitution? (EFF v Speaker) pic.twitter.com/qJhO6ifly1
— Constitutional Court (@ConCourtSA) September 4, 2017
He's called for a multi-party committee to be set up to investigate the president's conduct.
Other applicants in the matter include the UDM and COPE.
They say Zuma is yet to be held accountable for failing to implement recommendations in Thuli Madonsela's Nkandla report.
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