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
The Constitutional Court will rule on whether parliament acted lawfully when it rejected a Section 89 panel report recommending an impeachment inquiry into President Cyril…
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
The majority had made a decision and that was how democracy worked, the deputy president told the National Assembly
The crimes were not overtly complicated, based on what the state said in the first week of trial. But they were brazen.
DA gets confirmation from Sars that ‘dirty dollars’ hidden inside couch on the president’s Phala Phala farm were not declared to tax agency
The president can now turn to the high court to overturn the report that found he should face an impeachment inquiry
Legal precedent favours the ATM in its application to have parliament’s vote on the Ngcobo report overturned but the speaker says the court erred
The president is likely to follow party and state processes before making changes
The ANC’s reaction to the Zondo findings was a precursor of its attitude to the Ngcobo ‘Farmgate’ report
The party’s top six agreed that the would-be presidential contender committed misconduct by voting with the opposition against the ANC party line
The president quoted from the Ncgobo report selectively in his bid to have it set aside by the constitutional court, the African Transformation Movement said
The courts must be commended for upholding the law, but the Ngcobo report brings a new challenge
The president’s review application asks the constitutional court, again, to determine how parliament should deal with the political scandal
Chief legal advisor says the sub judice rule does not bar the National Assembly from debating the report, unless the president applies for an interdict
Political parties have agreed to move the debate on the report recommending President Cyril Ramaphosa face an impeachment inquiry to next week
In an application filed to the constitutional court, the president argued that the panel failed to follow the rules when it recommended he face an impeachment inquiry
The EFF leader has said that they should “vote with their conscience” and not according to the caucus instructions
The decision was announced by ANC treasurer general Paul Mashatile, at a meeting of the party’s national executive committee
Impeachment rules introduced for Jacob Zuma’s maleficence have caused Cyril Ramaphosa to trip