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By: Emmanuel M. Garjiek
Due to the PhalaPhala affair, two opposition parties are requesting that the court reopen the impeachment process against President Cyril Ramaphosa.
“All we ask is that the president refrain from abusing his position of authority in the manner that former President Zuma did at his home.” We would like Ramaphosa to provide the source of the funds discovered in Phala. Thebe, a partial supporter, claimed that the African National Congress (ANC) always utilizes its majority in Parliament to defend one another.
When it was discovered in 2022 that over half a million dollars in cash concealed in one of Ramaphosa’s farms had been stolen and concealed for years, the controversy broke out.
Ramaphosa was spared from impeachment proceedings by a parliamentary vote in which he received a majority.
Julius Malema, the head of the EFF, demands a thorough parliamentary probe.
“Our goal is to make the executive answerable. To defend corruption, the ANC entered the courtroom. to stand up for a man who admitted that his farm was profitable.
“We will defeat (South African President Cyril) Ramaphosa in this case, comrades. And because the ANC misused its majority in an unlawful way, we’ll bring him back to parliament and begin the impeachment process,” he said.
He spoke this to the Johannesburg crowds.
According to the EFF and the African Transformation Movement party, parliament did not adequately carry out its constitutional duty to hold the president accountable.
Financial agencies, a public watchdog, and police all exonerated Ramaphosa of any misconduct following a criminal inquiry.
After been reelected for a second term in June with the support of coalition partners, the head of Africa’s most developed economy may be at risk from any resuscitation of impeachment proceedings. But since the EFF and ATM are small parties, they would eventually require the backing of other members of the ANC-led coalition government in order to remove Ramaphosa, which is seen to be unlikely.
The Constitutional Court usually takes weeks or even months to issue a decision.
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