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High Court interdicts Ramaphosa's impeachment inquiry for limited period



Parliament’s impeachment committee will not be able to commence public hearings into the Phala Phala saga until the Western Cape High Court decides whether the report it is relying on should be set aside.

On Friday, the court found in favour of President Cyril Ramaphosa to interdict the proceedings, in which he is facing charges over his conduct related to foreign currency being stored and, subsequently, stolen from his farm in 2020.

Although the three judges hearing the matter did not agree on whether he had made a sufficient case for the interim interdict to be granted, the majority view was that the disputed report was reviewable and that the application was not moot.

In a short summary of the judgment, Judge Andre le Grange noted that the bench was not in agreement that an interdict should be granted, and one of them, Judge Matthew Francis, believed an insufficient case had been made, and the application should be dismissed.

However, Judge Diane Davis said even though the Phala Phala matter had been in the public domain for a long time, there was no doubt President Ramaphosa would suffer reputational harm if the inquiry were to continue, and his concerns were not frivolous.

Judge Le Grange concurred with Judge Davis, saying no subsequent declaration of invalidity of the report could restore the president’s dignity or erase the public spectacle of an impeachment inquiry.

Le Grange read out the majority finding of the court:

"Pending the determination by this court of the applicants' review, the first and second respondents are interdicted from proceeding with the public impeachment hearings in terms of rule 129M of the National Assembly rules."

The court said an application for President Ramaphosa to pay the respondents' costs would stand over until the review application is heard in September.

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