Jacob Zuma Impeachment

Episode 298 of the African Dialogue podcast, hosted by Channel Africa, titled "Jacob Zuma Impeachment" was published on April 5, 2016 and runs 59 minutes.

April 5, 2016 ·59m · African Dialogue

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Episode Description

South African Members of Parliament are back to begin the second session of parliament after a two weeks' break. But a lot has happened in the meantime. The Constitutional Court has found that parliament had failed to carry out its duty to hold the executive to account regarding the Nkandla matter. So their first and only sitting for this week will include a debate on whether to remove the president from office. The Constitutional Court handed down judgment in the Nkandla case last week. It ruled that President Jacob Zuma has 45 days to pay back the money used on his private Nkandla home. The final figure will be determined by the National Treasury. In another development, on Friday night last week, President Jacob Zuma conceded that many matters could have been handled differently in the scandal over the estimated 246 million rand of taxpayer cash being spent on his Nkandla homestead‚ and apologised for the “frustration and confusion” this had caused. To help us discuss this we are joined on the line by:

Levy Ndou Political Science at Tswane University of Technology.
Ben Turok Former ANC Member of Parliament.South African Members of Parliament are back to begin the second session of parliament after a two weeks' break. But a lot has happened in the meantime. The Constitutional Court has found that parliament had failed to carry out its duty to hold the executive to account regarding the Nkandla matter. So their first and only sitting for this week will include a debate on whether to remove the president from office. The Constitutional Court handed down judgment in the Nkandla case last week. It ruled that President Jacob Zuma has 45 days to pay back the money used on his private Nkandla home. The final figure will be determined by the National Treasury. In another development, on Friday night last week, President Jacob Zuma conceded that many matters could have been handled differently in the scandal over the estimated 246 million rand of taxpayer cash being spent on his Nkandla homestead‚ and apologised for the “frustration and confusion” this had caused. To help us discuss this we are joined on the line by:

Levy Ndou Political Science at Tswane University of Technology.
Ben Turok Former ANC Member of Parliament.
Marinus Vikkers Constitutional Expert .

Marinus Vikkers Constitutional Expert .