President Cyril Ramaphosa's controversial Phala Phala farm scandal appears poised to come back to haunt him.
The Electoral Commission of South Africa declared the final national and provincial elections results on Sunday, with the seventh Parliament now expected to be constituted in the next 14 days.could face a Section 89 inquiry for his removal should he return to office following the first sitting of the National Assembly, which will elect the new president.However, the National Assembly, in December 2022, decided to reject the motion to refer the panel’s report to an impeachment committee.
The respondents, which include Ramaphosa and former National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, were given until 26 July to respond to the EFF’s court challenge.will be back on the agenda.
Ramaphosa decided to take the legal route over the Section 89 panel report, but dropped his review application because the matter was “moot”.Ramaphosa’s application, saying “no case has been made out for exclusive jurisdiction or direct access” and referred the president to a lower court instead.Meanwhile, the Public Protector’s report on Phala Phala is also being challenged in the Pretoria High Court by the African Transformation Movement .
This is after Gcaleka found that the allegations accusing Ramaphosa of acting in a manner inconsistent with his office in his response to the burglary at his farm could not be substantiated, and cleared the president of any wrongdoing.But Freedom Front Pluss has vowed to reintroduce the Phala Phala issue in the National Assembly despite other investigations, including the South African Reserve Bank probe, exonerating the president.
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