A Parliamentary sub-committee will meet this week to deliberate on a draft procedure for the implementing section 89(1) of the Constitution as it relates to the “Removal of a President.”
In a statement on Sunday, The National Assembly Subcommittee on Review of Rules said it would convene on Wednesday and Thursday this week.
“This follows the Constitutional Court’s judgment handed down on 29 December 2017 that the National Assembly had failed to put in place proper rules regulating a procedure for section 89(1) of the Constitution,” the Statement said.
“The Constitutional Court ordered the National Assembly to make such rules without delay to initiate a process under section 89(1), in terms of the newly developed rules.”
“In keeping with the Assembly’s commitment to comply fully with the Constitutional Court’s majority judgment, Members of Parliament serving on the National Assembly Rules Subcommittee have been notified of the forthcoming meetings and supplied with documents to be considered there,” said Parliamentary spokesperson Molotho Mothapo.
“The documents include a draft procedure drawn up in April 2016, but not finalised, and a comparative study, compiled in 2015, about impeachment proceedings of seven other Parliaments on the removal of a Head of State,” he said.
Mothapo said, “the draft procedure, once finalised by the Subcommittee, would need to be adopted by the National Assembly as part of the Assembly’s rules.”
