Cape Town, June 21 (IANS) South Africa’s Parliament Speaker Thokozile Didiza will not oppose President Cyril Ramaphosa’s urgent bid to halt the impeachment proceedings, the Parliament said on Sunday.Ramaphosa filed an urgent application on June 12, seeking to suspend the Impeachment Committee’s work while challenging the findings of an independent panel report into the Phala Phala affair. In court papers, he argued that the proceedings should be paused pending a judicial review of the report, Xi…
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Johannesburg, May 12 (IANS) South Africa’s National Assembly will reopen impeachment-related proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa following a Constitutional Court ruling, local media reported.The Constitutional Court on earlier ruled that the country’s parliament acted unconstitutionally when it rejected an independent panel report on the Phala Phala matter involving Ramaphosa, reopening the possibility of impeachment proceedings against the head of state, Xinhua news agency reported.Ci…