South Africa’s highest court ruled on Friday that Parliament had failed to hold President Jacob Zuma accountable in a long-running corruption case, putting pressure on the weakened leader to resign as his party tries to reinvent itself.
The Constitutional Court ruled that Parliament — which is dominated by Mr. Zuma’s African National Congress and has stood behind the scandal-plagued president during his eight years in office — had failed to properly investigate Mr. Zuma’s conduct when it voted last year not to impeach him.
“The assembly did not hold the president to account as was required” by a section of the Constitution that deals with the president’s removal, Judge Chris Jafta said in handing down the court’s judgment.
