JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's best court nowadays dominated that parliament failed to hold embattled President Jacob Zuma accountable for the usage of state finances to upgrade his personal home, in a move that would cause impeachment court cases.
The opposition had long past to court arguing that the Speaker of parliament had did not institute suitable processes to hold Zuma accountable for his failure to abide via the anti-corruption watchdog's recommendations in 2014 over refurbishments at his rural home within the jap KwaZulu Natal province the usage of some $15 million of taxpayers money.
The scandal got here to a dramatic climax when the Constitutional Court last year discovered the president to blame of violating his oath of place of work via refusing to pay back the cash.
"We conclude that (National) Assembly did not hold the president to account," said Constitutional Court judge Chris Jafta.
"The failure by the National Assembly to make rules regulating removal of the president... constitutes a violation," of the charter, the court said.
It ordered that the nationwide assembly "must comply" with the charter to make rules that may be used for the elimination of the president "without delay".
Defeated in court and dealing with mounting public criticism, Zuma later relented and paid $500,000, a sum set via the treasury.
In energy since 2009, Zuma stepped down last week as president of the ruling ANC birthday celebration after a 10 year term marked via a lot of damning court judgements against him.
Today's ruling is expected to pile up more force on the beleaguered leader.
Zuma was once succeeded via his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa in a tightly fought contest during which his former wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma additionally ran.
He is due to renounce as state president after basic elections in 2019.
The ANC's deputy secretary basic Jessie Duarte said the birthday celebration had famous the ruling and would "discuss its full implications" when the birthday celebration decision-making body the National Executive Committee meets in just below two weeks on January 10, 2018
The opposition had long past to court arguing that the Speaker of parliament had did not institute suitable processes to hold Zuma accountable for his failure to abide via the anti-corruption watchdog's recommendations in 2014 over refurbishments at his rural home within the jap KwaZulu Natal province the usage of some $15 million of taxpayers money.
The scandal got here to a dramatic climax when the Constitutional Court last year discovered the president to blame of violating his oath of place of work via refusing to pay back the cash.
"We conclude that (National) Assembly did not hold the president to account," said Constitutional Court judge Chris Jafta.
"The failure by the National Assembly to make rules regulating removal of the president... constitutes a violation," of the charter, the court said.
It ordered that the nationwide assembly "must comply" with the charter to make rules that may be used for the elimination of the president "without delay".
Defeated in court and dealing with mounting public criticism, Zuma later relented and paid $500,000, a sum set via the treasury.
In energy since 2009, Zuma stepped down last week as president of the ruling ANC birthday celebration after a 10 year term marked via a lot of damning court judgements against him.
Today's ruling is expected to pile up more force on the beleaguered leader.
Zuma was once succeeded via his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa in a tightly fought contest during which his former wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma additionally ran.
He is due to renounce as state president after basic elections in 2019.
The ANC's deputy secretary basic Jessie Duarte said the birthday celebration had famous the ruling and would "discuss its full implications" when the birthday celebration decision-making body the National Executive Committee meets in just below two weeks on January 10, 2018
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