As President Cyril Ramaphosa heads to court to review the Independent Panel's report, Parliament is set to have its first Impeachment Committee meeting on Monday.
Negotiations for the chairperson of Parliament’s Impeachment Committee are set to continue just before the committee’s first meeting on Monday afternoon, with opposition parties uniting and hoping to leave the ANC as the odd man out.
Several political parties on the committee have indicated that negotiations for the position of chairperson are ongoing, and that, for the committee to retain its integrity, the chairperson should not come from the ANC but rather the opposition parties.
The committee, which was established after the Constitutional Court judgment directed Parliament to investigate whether there are valid grounds to recommend President Cyril Ramaphosa’s removal from office, will have their first meeting on Monday at 2 pm to elect a chairperson.
Out of the 31-member seats on the committee, the ANC has nine, followed by the DA with five, the MK Party with three, EFF with two, while the 12 smaller political parties have one seat.
