The Constitutional Court was engaged in a marathon hearing on Tuesday, as the EFF and ATM challenged a National Assembly decision not to subject the president to an impeachment inquiry in 2022.
CAPE TOWN - The African National Congress has faced a lengthy grilling by the Constitutional Court over why President Cyril Ramaphosa did not bank the US dollars stolen from his Phala Phala farm in 2020.
The ANC told the court the independent panel appointed by the National Assembly Speaker misconstrued its role when it was asked to consider evidence that the president may have breached the law and his oath of office. The ANC said it could not merely rubberstamp an independent panel report that suggested there was prima facie evidence for Ramaphosa to face an impeachment inquiry.
"On this report, and on these findings, the National Assembly was perfectly rational in arriving at the decision that it did."
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