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. "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."
Impeachment
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 R206m 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: News24
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