Impeachment
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Ramaphosa's lawyers challenge legal test
The Western Cape High Court heard intense arguments on the second day regarding the legal threshold for impeaching President Cyril Ramaphosa, with his legal team contending that…
Opposition parties oppose Ramaphosa's bid to halt the Phala Phala impeachment process
President Cyril Ramaphosa's application to halt Parliament's Section 89 impeachment process over the Phala Phala farm scandal is facing opposition from the MK Party, the Economic…
Impeachment inquiry will go on
Parliament’s impeachment committee has decided to oppose President Cyril Ramaphosa’s bid to halt the impeachment proceedings over Phala Phala. Ramaphosa asked the Western Cape…
Ramaphosa’s Constitutional Court dilemma
Ramaphosa’s decision to pursue a judicial review and the Constitutional Court’s call for Parliament to start an impeachment inquiry, will create tensions in the GNU
‘I will not resign’, Ramaphosa says
President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will not resign despite a Constitutional Court ruling that reopened the door to a parliamentary impeachment inquiry over the Phala Phala scandal
EFF demands an immediate impeachment committee against Ramaphosa after Constitutional Court Phala Phala ruling
The party says parliament must immediately establish an impeachment committee to consider the panel’s findings on President Cyril Ramaphosa
Malema: Ramaphosa must resign and focus on his impeachment
South Africa cannot afford to have a president who is occupying office while being clouded by an impeachment process, the EFF leader says
Tribunal hears forensic proof of WhatsApp communication in Mbenenge sexual harassment case
The judicial conduct tribunal’s outcome could reshape women’s rights, workplace safety and equality in South Africa’s male-dominated judiciary
Hlophe’s return would undermine integrity of JSC, court told
The unrepentant conduct of the impeached-judge-turned-politician makes him unsuitable for a body that chooses and disciplines judges
Mkhwebane takes lament on SCA justices to Concourt
The former public protector has asked the court for leave to challenge the dismissal of a moot appeal and to rebuke judges for criticism of Dali Mpofu
Kenya’s deputy president faces impeachment vote
Rigathi Gachagua says the charges against him, including corruption, are a ploy to push him out of office
High court interdict bars Hlophe from taking up seat at Judicial Service Commission
It was granted pending the hearing of three applications for review of the decision by MPs to appoint the former judge to the same commission that urged his impeachment
Malema accuses DA of opportunism in Ramaphosa impeachment debate
At the same briefing, the uMkhonto weSizwe party’s John Hlophe said the government of national unity would not last
Ramaphosa scraped through 2022, but what will it take for South Africa to win in 2023?
What we need from the media is to be able to see much more clearly what the policy options are for getting us out of this mess
Wake up, Ramaphosa, there is a political war on
The president cannot rely on ANC MPs in the National Assembly to vote against initiating an impeachment process