Opposition of South Africa says that it will take necessary actions to remove President

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The main opposition party in South Africa will take any action necessary to remove from office the South African President, Jacob Zuma, if Parliament does not, said the legend on Friday, one day after the Constitutional Court of the country stating that the trustee has violated the Constitution.

The court said that Zuma failed to maintain, defend and respect the Constitution by ignoring the instructions to return part of the 16 million dollars of state funds spent on the modernization of their private residence.

"We can not have Jacob Zuma and the Constitution in the same Parliament. These two things can not coexist," said Mmusi Maimane, leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA, its acronym in English) in a press conference.

On Thursday, the party said it had initiated impeachment proceedings against Zuma, but the move is unlikely to succeed, because the ruling African National Congress (ANC) enjoys a comfortable majority in the legislature.

But the judicial rebuke to the president can encourage anti-Zuma faction within the ANC to challenge his leadership. The former liberation movement ruled South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994 when Nelson Mandela became the nation's first black president.

"Now is the time to remove the ANC Zuma," said Boikie Motsi, 43 cars of a park keeper in Johannesburg, told Reuters on Friday.
DA also called on the President of Parliament, Baleka Mbete, to resign after the Constitutional Court ruled that the National Assembly also violated the law.