(Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s lawmakers will have a draft procedure relating to the removal of a sitting president of the country ready in two weeks’ time.
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Parliament’s subcommittee on the review of the National Assembly rules plans to have the final document by mid-February, and will send this to the rules committee for adoption then, the Cape Town-based institution said in an emailed statement Wednesday.
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On Dec. 29, the country’s top court found that parliament had failed to hold President Jacob Zuma to account for his role in a scandal involving the misuse of public funds on his private home and ordered it to draft rules governing the circumstances under which he could be removed from office.
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