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Ramaphosa Mounts Legal Challenge to Stop Impeachment Inquiry
President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched a legal challenge against a parliamentary report that reopened the possibility of impeachment proceedings linked to the Phala Phala farm scandal. In 2022, an independent panel said Ramaphosa might have committed serious misconduct relating to the theft of large sums of cash hidden in a sofa at his private farm. The president denied any wrongdoing. Ramaphosa argued that the independent panel investigating the 2020 theft of about $580,000 hidden at his farm misunderstood its mandate. The challenge follows a recent Constitutional Court ruling that Parliament acted unconstitutionally when it previously voted against establishing an impeachment inquiry. Parliament has since formed a multi-party