Parliament's Impeachment Committee is starting to take shape as the investigation into the Phala Phala farm scandal unfolds.
While parties outside the Government of National Unity (GNU) declared their intentions to leverage the impeachment proceedings to force President Cyril Ramaphosa’s immediate resignation, coalition partners are likely to overpower them and pull out all the stops to protect him.
This is according to political analyst Professor Sipho Seepe, who warned that these parties are likely to go out of their way to shield Ramaphosa from being subjected to the impeachment process.
This came after National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza established a 31-member parliamentary impeachment committee to probe Ramaphosa over the Phala Phala farm scandal.
The establishment of the committee followed the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) ruling that the National Assembly’s December 2022 vote to reject the Section 89 independent panel report was unconstitutional and invalid.
