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SA opposition seeks to revive impeachment proceedings against Ramaphosa

Reuters/Johannesburg

November 26, 2024 | 11:59 PM

Members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) protest in the streets as they make their way to the Constitutional Court, where the political party is challenging the National Assembly’s rejection of a report that could have led to impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa due to the Phala Phala scandal in Johannesburg, yesterday.

South African opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) brought a case to the country’s top court yesterday to try to revive impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over the scandal dubbed "Farmgate” by local media.The scandal centred on the alleged theft of millions of dollars hidden in furniture on Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala game farm, which a former intelligence official revealed to police.An independent panel report found evidence Ramaphosa may have committed misconduct over the incident.But in late 2022 lawmakers from Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC), which had a majority in the National Assembly at the time, voted to reject the report and prevented an impeachment committee from being set up to probe the allegations.