DA bill aimed at blocking impeached individuals from serving in govt moves forward
Introduced by the party's justice spokesperson, Glynnis Breytenbach, the Constitution Twenty-Second Amendment Bill seeks to amend three sections of the Constitution to achieve this objective.
The bill has been prompted by former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and former judge president John Hlophe both becoming parliamentarians, mere months after being impeached by the National Assembly.
It was not until the sixth administration that Parliament faced impeaching a head of a Chapter 9 institution for the first time, and then the country's first two judges.
READ: ActionSA introduces bill that would see removal of all deputy ministers
The DA's Breytenbach said the bill seeks to plug a gap in the law that prevents impeached individuals from becoming members of a national or provincial legislature or a municipal council.
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