- South African Parliament was scheduled to launch a vote on impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa on December 6th. However, the Parliament has in a latest development, decided on December 5 th to postpone the procedure by a week.
South African Parliament was scheduled to launch a vote on impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa on December 6th. However, the Parliament has in a latest development, decided on December 5 th to postpone the procedure by a week. The new date is fixed for December 13 as announced by the speaker Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula.
The postponement was justified on the grounds that the members of the parliament needed to be given time to travel to Cape Town, the seat of Parliament, for a physical voting.
The ruling party African National Congress (ANC) which enjoys a majority in the parliament has pledged its full support to their leader President Cyril Ramaphosa in the wake of a scandal. The ANC members have announced that they will vote against impeachment proceedings. The decision was conveyed by ANC secretary-general Paul Mashatile at a news conference after a meeting of the party leaders in Johannesburg.
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There has been mounting pressure on Ramaphosa to quit or be forced from office over the scandal known as the Phala Phala affair. The political situation snowballed into a crisis after the parliament committee’s finding that President Ramaphosa may be involved in a criminal breach by concealing theft from his farm. The crisis started in June , when a former intelligence official filed a complaint with the police alleging that Ramaphosa had hidden the February 2020 burglary in his farm from the authorities and bribed the robbers into silence.
