The Constitutional Court has reserved judgment in the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and African Transformation Movement (ATM) challenge regarding the Phala Phala scandal. The court heard arguments on the National Assembly’s decision not to adopt the Independent Panel’s Report on the scandal. President Cyril Ramaphosa's legal counsel argued that the National Assembly's decision was correct due to the report's flaws.
The Constitutional Court has reserved judgment in the Economic Freedom Fighters and African Transformation Movement Phala Phala challenge.
The legal counsel for President Cyril Ramaphosa argued that the National Assembly’s decision not to adopt the Section 89 independent panel report was correct as it was fundamentally flawed.“But even if one assumes, for the sake of argument, that its interpretation is the correct one, that doesn’t answer the question whether the President deliberately and in bad faith adopted the wrong interpretation of the term ‘paid work’,” added Budlender.
“Perhaps more likely is that he genuinely thought that he was entitled to act as he did and he lacked dolus and bad faith. Again, the question is not whether the president’s interpretation was right or wrong, it is whether his interpretation was in bad faith,” he explained.the Phala Phala farm theft case.
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