IANS
Cape Town, April 5
A motion to impeach South African President Jacob Zuma, proposed by the opposition, was defeated in parliament on Tuesday.
The motion comes after the Constitutional Court, in an unanimous judgment on Thursday, found that Zuma’s failure to comply with the remedial action imposed on him by the public protector in her 2014 report on Nkandla was “inconsistent” with the Constitution, BDlive reported.
The DA would be campaigning to give the “legislature back its teeth” but more broadly would be appealing for the electorate to “vote for change”, he said at a media briefing in Sandton.
On Friday, the 73-year-old president gave a televised address to the nation in which he apologised and said he would pay back some of the money, as ordered. He said that he never knowingly or deliberately set out to violate the constitution .
