ConCourt revives impeachment process against Ramaphosa

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The South African Constitutional Court has revived impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over a scandal involving stolen foreign currency.

ConCourt revives impeachment process against Ramaphosa South Africa's highest court on Friday revived impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over a scandal in which a large amount of foreign currency was stolen from inside a sofa in his farmhouse in 2020. In 2022 Ramaphosa's political party blocked an impeachment committee from being set up to further investigate the incident, which raised questions about how Ramaphosa acquired so much physical cash, whether he declared it and why he stuffed it in furniture instead of depositing it at a bank. Ramaphosa, in power since 2018, has always denied wrongdoing over the scandal, dubbed "Farmgate" by local media, and has said the money was proceeds from the sale of some buffaloes on his game ranch. A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE ANY IMPEACHMENT VOTE The court said the move to block the impeachment process was inconsistent with the constitution and the committee should now be established. Ramaphosa said in a statement that he respected the court's judgment. Political analysts said there was still a long way to go in the impeachment process and Ramaphosa was likely to survive if the matter was put to a vote in the lower house of…

Topics covered

• impeachment
• politics
• South Africa
• Cyril Ramaphosa
• court ruling
• scandal

Keywords

• Cyril Ramaphosa
• impeachment
• Farmgate
• South Africa
• Constitutional Court
• politics
• scandal

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: African National Congress

Places: South Africa

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