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President Cyril Ramaphosa

Ramaphosa takes Phala Phala report to court in bid to block impeachment process

The president has launched a high court bid to overturn the 2022 Phala Phala panel report as parliament moves towards an impeachment committee

The Presidents’ men – and women: The ANC has always used its parliamentary majority to close ranks behind its president and party interest, rather than adhering to the Constitution and making decisions in the interest of South Africa. Photo: Supplied

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

Zuma’s desire to remain an ANC member can’t be going down all that well in the MK party, especially in the Kingdom, its stronghold and the source of its national political presence. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

It’s pay back the money (again) as Malema moves to seize Zuma’s firepool

Unlike his predecessor, President Cyril Ramaphosa has no interest in compound interest

Cyril Ramaphosa’s farm, Phala Phala. (Leon Sadiki)

ATM ‘will pursue all legal avenues’ over the Phala Phala scandal

The National Prosecuting Authority says Ramaphosa is off the Phala Phala hook

Cyril Ramaphosa’s farm, Phala Phala. (Leon Sadiki)

Concourt agrees to hear EFF challenge on Phala Phala

Cyril Ramaphosa’s counsel has countered that the case is stillborn because the National Assembly had a right to reject the findings of the Ngcobo panel

ANC stalwart Frank Chikane.

Veterans should lead the ANC’s renewal, says Chikane

The ANC embarked on a programme of renewal in 2017 after it emerged that it had been complicit in state capture.

Decisions: The coalitions the ANC choose to form seem likely to shape which way the South African economy will go. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

DA asks high court to set aside Reserve Bank report that clears Ramaphosa

The central bank’s conclusion that the president did not have an obligation to report forex paid to, and stolen from, his Phala Phala farm was irrational, it argues in court papers

Former president Jacob Zuma. File photo

Announcement on Zuma’s possible return to jail will be made this week

Submissions are being considered and a decision will follow by Thursday

Former president Jacob Zuma. Photo: Supplied

Government asks litigants for submissions on Zuma’s fate

Correctional services wants input as it considers a court order that says the former president must return to jail because his medical parole was unlawful

Abusive: Ever since 2007, when he was indicted on charges linked to the 1990s arms deal, Jacob Zuma has appeared in court regularly. One such appearance was on 26 May 2021 (above) in the Pietermaritzburg high court where pleaded not guilty to fraud, corruption, racketeering and money-laundering. (Phill Magakoe/Getty Images)

The price South Africa pays for Zuma’s freedom

The former president is probably correct in believing he will never serve another day in prison but he has shaken faith in the justice system

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Jerome Delay / POOL / AFP)

Zuma unable to stomach his own medicine

There is irony in Msholozi being forced under the heel of the monstrous correctional services system he propped up – will he return behind bars?

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Michele Spatari / AFP)

Zuma in Russia for health reasons

The former president will return home once his treatment is complete, his foundation said after a concourt decision made plain he must return to prison

Former South African President Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Themba Hadebe / POOL / AFP)

Zuma back to jail

The court said there was no reasonable prospects of success for an appeal on the judgment finding that his release on medical parole was unlawful

President Cyril Ramaphosa.

‘Record does not exist’ that $580 000 paid to Ramaphosa farm was declared on entry in South Africa

DA gets confirmation from Sars that ‘dirty dollars’ hidden inside couch on the president’s Phala Phala farm were not declared to tax agency

Former public protector Thuli Madonsela says intelligence agency opened documents couriered to her by the department of international relations. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Sunday Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Madonsela says State Security Agency tried to snoop on CIEX-Bankorp probe

Former public protector says intelligence agency opened documents couriered to her by the department of international relations

Cyril Ramaphosa’s farm, Phala Phala. (Leon Sadiki)

Concourt denies Ramaphosa access on Ngcobo report on Phala Phala

The president can now turn to the high court to overturn the report that found he should face an impeachment inquiry

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo: Reuters)

Public protector has completed Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala inquiry

An interim report will be sent to President Cyril Ramaphosa for comment on the findings

Indefatigable: Former president Jacob Zuma seems to be hoping for a defeat of his adversaries in the party he may or may not still be a part of.

When it comes to irony, our cup runneth over

Impeachment rules introduced for Jacob Zuma’s maleficence have caused Cyril Ramaphosa to trip

Retired chief justice Sandile Ncgobo (left) hands his report to speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. (GCIS)

Phala Phala becomes impeachment nightmare for president

A panel has found that the president has a case to answer for receiving foreign currency, not reporting it stolen and enabling secret efforts to recover it

Cyril Ramaphosa’s farm, Phala Phala. (Leon Sadiki)

Phala Phala becomes impeachment nightmare for Ramaphosa

A panel has found prima facie evidence that the president broke the law in receiving foreign currency, not reporting it stolen and enabling secret efforts to recover it