Mazibuko warns on Zuma impeachment

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DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko vowed on Tuesday to table a motion to impeach President Jacob Zuma if the public protector's report on Nkandla fingered him.

Speaking in the National Assembly during debate on Zuma's state-of-the-nation address, she told MPs she wanted to deliver a very clear message on the Nkandla "scandal", which involved spending over R206 million of public money on Zuma's private homestead in Kwazulu-Natal.

"I want to use this opportunity to send a very clear message to our honourable members, that should the honourable president be involved in any wrongdoing in the public protector's report on the Nkandla scandal, I will not hesitate to table a motion to impeach him in this House."

Mazibuko said she could not guarantee opposition parties would win such an impeachment vote, but millions of South Africans would be calling on MPs to do the right thing.

"They know the real story -- that our country cannot afford another five years of President Zuma's administration."

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's report on Nkandla is set to be released on March 1.

Earlier, Mazibuko said Zuma should have resigned the moment the story broke that more than R206m of public money was spent on upgrades to his private homestead at Nkandla.

She also told the House that the past five years of Zuma's "poor leadership" had reversed much of the progress South Africa had made up to 2009.


Source : Sapa /rod/hdw/jje/jk
Date : 18 Feb 2014 15:33
 
She'll ask for impeachment and the ANC will just give her blank stares. The end. (That's how it plays out in my head anyway.)

I didn't know that the ANC was capable of anything other than blank stares.
 
Mazibuke warning an empty threat : ANC

The ANC on Wednesday dismissed Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko's warning to President Jacob Zuma as an empty, rhetorical threat.

"We are aware that, with the election looming, some political leaders will blow plenty of hot air at every direction in order to grab as many headlines as possible," ANC Chief Whip Stone Sizani said in a statement.

"There are opposition parties in Parliament who have offered the electorate no alternative or creative ideas since 2009, except to repeatedly call for the president of the country to resign."

On Tuesday, Mazibuko vowed to table a motion to impeach Zuma if the Public Protector's report on his private homestead in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, implicated him in wrongdoing.

Speaking in the National Assembly during debate on Zuma's state-of-the-nation address on Tuesday, she told MPs she wanted to deliver a very clear message on the Nkandla "scandal", which involved over R206 million of public money.

"I want to use this opportunity to send a very clear message to our honourable members, that should the honourable president be involved in any wrongdoing in the Public Protector's report on the Nkandla scandal, I will not hesitate to table a motion to impeach him in this House," she said.

Sizani on Wednesday claimed Mazibuko's comments were designed to pressure the Public Protector to find Zuma guilty.

"While certain opposition parties have clearly demonstrated that they exist for no other reason except to engage in a negative and anti-Zuma campaign, as the ANC we will continue to celebrate with the people our achievements and our practical plan to move South African forward beyond the 2014 election," he said.


Source : Sapa /gq/jlb/hdw/jk/th
Date : 19 Feb 2014 11:46
 
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, some political leaders will blow plenty of hot air at every direction in order to grab as many headlines as possible
like Zuma looking at e-toll "problems" etc...
 
She' farting against thunder.

Did you all see how he just sat there while most of the opposition speakers called him out as a fraud?

That smirk he had on his face said everything. I'm untouchable, there is nothing you can do.

If ever there was any doubt about the kind of person he is then that should have sealed it for you. I personally think he is worse than Mugabe.
 
Of course it's an empty threat. Impeachment requires a 66% vote in parliament. Aint never gonna happen.
 
Would be funny as fsck if a Tlokwe type incident happened....

hahahaha yeah... Need to schedule the impeachment vote for just after 2pm on a friday. ANC MPs will either be absent or fast asleep with their heads in their KFC buckets.
 
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