Prof. Eldrid Jordaan is the founder of GovChat.
According to reports in Business Day and the Sunday Times, President Cyril Ramaphosa is considering an urgent interdict to halt Parliament’s impeachment inquiry pending a judicial review of the Section 89 panel report.
For many South Africans, this may be the first time they are hearing terms such as interim interdict, judicial review, irreparable harm, and separation of powers entering mainstream national debate.
Yet these legal principles play a critical role in constitutional democracy.
When GovChat approached the Competition Tribunal in South Africa seeking interim relief against Meta, we entered a legal battlefield that required us to satisfy the same legal thresholds that any applicant seeking urgent interim protection before a South African court or tribunal must meet.
