Phala Phala panel misread its mandate, Ramaphosa argues in court papers - In an application filed to the constitutional court, the president argued that the panel failed to follow the rules when it recommended he face an impeachment inquiry
“It was also unfair to me because it raised matters to which I was never invited to respond,” he said in his application asking the court to set aside the report that has plunged the ruling party into existential crisis.
It was expected in legal circles that Ramaphosa may raise this argument in defence to the report’s assertion that his version of events surrounding the burglary at his Phala Phala game farm in 2020 was “vague and leaves unsettling gaps”.on charges that he breached the law and the Constitution, particularly with regard to the source of the money stolen from his farm, the actual amount that was taken and the efforts that ensued to recover it.
The panel further failed to understand that a potential finding of serious misconduct or a serious breach of the Constitution or the law, as defined by the rules of the National Assembly, is confined to instances where the president acted deliberately and in bad faith. The panel located grounds for a case to answer not only in the narrative former intelligence boss Arthur Fraser told the police when he brought charges against Ramaphosa in relation to the burglary, but in what it termed the evident holes in the president’s version of what happened at his farm.
Ramaphosa, who was last week pulled back from the brink of resigning by his allies, is reliably understood to be loath to subject himself to the long and distracting process of an impeachment inquiry.is not only a legal strategy but also a political one and in that sense it has worked so far.
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