Ramaphosa Launches Legal Bid to Halt Impeachment Inquiry
Ramaphosa’s latest move comes in the wake of a Constitutional Court judgment finding that Parliament acted unconstitutionally when it previously voted against setting up an impeachment inquiry. In response to that ruling, Parliament has established a multi-party committee...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has put the National Assembly on notice: if lawmakers push ahead with an impeachment process over his conduct in the Phala Phala saga, he says he will be “compelled” to ask the Western Cape High Court for an interdict to stop it.
The warning revives a controversy that has dogged Ramaphosa since 2022, when an independent panel concluded he might have committed serious misconduct linked to the theft of large sums of cash that had been hidden in a sofa at his private farm. Ramaphosa has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. He has also maintained that the panel, which examined the 2020 theft of about $580,000 concealed on the property, misunderstood the scope of its mandate.
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Ramaphosa’s latest move comes in the wake of a Constitutional Court judgment finding that Parliament acted unconstitutionally when it previously voted against setting up an impeachment inquiry. In response to that ruling, Parliament has established a multi-party committee tasked with deciding whether the impeachment process should proceed.
