Appeal against Ramaphosa interdict won’t resolve main dispute, says high court
The MK party and UAT have lost their bid to appeal the Phala Phala impeachment inquiry ruling.
The Western Cape High Court in Cape Town has dismissed an appeal by the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party and the United Africans Transformation (UAT) against an interim order that halted President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala impeachment inquiry. The court ruled that the earlier decision, which granted Ramaphosa an interdict preventing the impeachment committee from proceeding with public hearings, did not completely halt the committee's work.
While public hearings were temporarily stopped, the committee was still allowed to continue with preparatory activities. The interim order remains in place pending the outcome of Ramaphosa's review application, in which he is challenging the findings of a Section 89 independent panel. The panel concluded that the president had questions to answer over the theft of approximately $580,000 from his Phala Phala game farm in Limpopo on 9 February 2020. Ramaphosa is seeking to have the panel's findings overturned.
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