By Simon Nare
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s bid to have the Independent Panel report that paved the way for a Section 89 impeachment process reviewed is not genuine but is motivated by concerns over the consequences of a successful impeachment, the Western Cape High Court heard on Thursday.
Advocate Mfesane Ka-Siboto, legal counsel representing the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), told the full bench that Ramaphosa had never challenged the merits of the report he now seeks to have set aside and only acted after the Constitutional Court ruled that the National Assembly had acted unlawfully by blocking an impeachment inquiry through a majority vote.
Ramaphosa approached the court for a judicial review after the Constitutional Court ruled that the National Assembly had acted unlawfully in 2022 when it rejected an impeachment inquiry into his handling of the theft of foreign currency from his private Phala Phala farm.
The apex court set
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