{"id":142935,"date":"2017-12-29T22:10:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T03:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=142935"},"modified":"2025-01-14T11:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:01:39","slug":"south-african-president-suffers-another-legal-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/29\/south-african-president-suffers-another-legal-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"South African president suffers another legal setback"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FILE: Jacob Zuma (Photo by World Economic Forum [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0)])<\/figcaption><\/figure>JOHANNESBURG \u2014 South Africa’s top court on Friday ruled that parliament failed to hold President Jacob Zuma to account in a scandal over multi-million-dollar upgrades to his private home, in a decision likely to escalate pressure on him to resign.<\/p>\n

The constitutional Court’s ruling followed its conclusion last year that Zuma violated the constitution when he benefited inappropriately from state funding for his Nkandla home. It was one of a series of presidential scandals that have tarnished the reputation of the ruling African\u00a0National<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Congress, the main anti-apartheid movement that has led South Africa since the first all-race elections in 1994.<\/p>\n

Zuma has survived opposition efforts to oust him in votes of no confidence in parliament, where the ANC party has a majority. Frustrated by setbacks in the\u00a0National<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Assembly, the opposition went to court as part of their campaign to impeach Zuma, who has lost support among ruling party loyalists.<\/p>\n

Zuma was replaced as party leader this month by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, a critic of the corruption that has undermined South Africa’s economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe conclude that the assembly did not hold the president to account,\u201d said Chris Jafta, a constitutional Court judge who read out the ruling.<\/p>\n

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He called for parliament to institute rules that would provide for a president’s removal.<\/p>\n

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Parliament said in a statement that it would comply with the instruction.<\/p>\n

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The court ruling cited a constitutional provision that says parliament \u201cmay remove\u201d a president from office by a two-thirds majority for a \u201cserious violation\u201d of the law, as well as a separate requirement that constitutional obligations must be \u201cperformed diligently and without delay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng disagreed with the majority ruling, describing it as judicial overreach.<\/p>\n

The ruling party said it will study the ruling and discuss it at a high-level meeting on Jan. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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