Zuma Impeachment: Opposition parties to head back to court

The president survived another attempt by the opposition to remove him from power.

In a dramatic debate in Parliament yesterday the ANC used its majority to vote against a motion of impeachment.

The motion was prompted by a Constitutional court ruling last week that found that the president had violated the Constitution in the Nkandla case.

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The DA's Mabine Seabe says they will not stop until President Zuma is removed from the office.

"Opposition party leaders will be mobilising civil society, NGOs, interest roups as well as the clergy and we are going to mobilise them for President Jacob Zuma's removal from office. 

"We are going to use all democratic and constitutional means to ensure that President Jacob Zuma - the man who violated the Constitution - is removed from office swiftly," he said. 

In a statement yesterday the presidency said Zuma did not break his oath of office.

Bongani Majola says people should not twist what was stated in the Constitutional Court. 

"The Constitutional Court in fact did not make such a declaratory order. Whereas the counsel for the EFF which was the applicant in the matter specifically asked for the Constitutional Court to declare that the president had acted in violation of his Oath of Office. The Constitutional Court did not grant such a declaratory order, not in those terms," he said.

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