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Skin in the game: President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing a legal bid by the EFF to force parliament to impeach him over the Phala Phala scandal. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)
ANC

EFF case brings back the spectre, and strangeness, of Phala Phala

Judges ask the president’s and the National Assembly’s counsel if parliament threw the baby out with the bathwater

  • Emsie Ferreira
9 min read
Mandatory vaccination involves, at a glance, the constitutional rights to bodily integrity, privacy, to protection against unfair discrimination and to freedom of thought, religion, conscience and opinion. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
ALAN DODSON

The uncertain consensus around vaccine mandates

Lawyers agree that the issue is inevitably heading for constitutional challenge, but not all accept the mainstream view that the limitation of rights is justifiable

  • Emsie Ferreira
6 min read
In a matter that has gone on for more than a year, in part because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the court found that Speaker Thandi Modise’s decision not to allow the ATM’s request was unimpeachable.
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT

ATM loses Ramaphosa no confidence ballot court battle

The Western Cape high court has found that Speaker Thandi Modise applied her mind when rejecting the ATM’s demand

  • Emsie Ferreira
3 min read
The Pretoria high court on Tuesday dismissed with costs the Economic Freedom Fighters’s bid to force the disclosure of details of donations to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s campaign to claim the leadership of the ANC in 2017. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AUBREY LEDWABA

Ramaphosa can’t separate funding for ANC bid from becoming president, high court hears

Counsel for the Economic Freedom Fighters are seeking to force the disclosure of records showing who bankrolled the CR17 campaign

  • Emsie Ferreira
4 min read