Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema, has announced that his party will pursue impeachment proceedings against President Jacob Zuma, should the Constitutional Court find that he had violated the Constitution.
In a dramatic day at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday, Zuma conceded that the findings of remedial action against him in Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s report on Nkandla were binding on him.
Zuma, through his senior counsel Jeremy Gauntlett, also accepted that he had to pay back some of the public money spent on the non-security upgrades to his family home in Nkandla.
The DA said its caucus had not yet considered the impeachment option.
DA Federal Executive Committee Chairman James Selfe said they would need to consider whether Zuma's apparent ducking and diving on the Nkandla issue over the past two years was an attempt to avoid his Constitutional duties or whether he was just being badly advised.
The ANC meanwhile has declined to be drawn on the proceedings in the Constitutional Court on Tuesday.
Spokesperson, Khusela Sangoni, said only once judgement has been delivered will the ruling party comment.
However, she did say that the matter before the court raised critical questions for the promotion and upholding of the institutions like the Public Protector that support constitutional democracy as envisaged by the Constitution.
" We think the question that currently exists around the nature of and extent of the chapter 9 institutions must be interogated by South africans as a whole...We have no doubt that coming from it not only will we be able to strengthen the dots in our separation of powers and it's applications but to ensure that the chapter 9 institution continues to work to whats been envisaged in the constitution" she said.
