A high court in South Africa on Friday granted President Cyril Ramaphosa an interdict temporarily halting a parliamentary impeachment inquiry against him.
Ramaphosa had sought to stay the public inquiry pending a legal review of an independent panel report in 2022.
It found that he may have violated the constitution and have a case to answer in the so-called “Farmgate” scandal.
This involves the 2020 theft of $580,000 in undeclared foreign currency hidden in a sofa on his Phala Phala game farm in Limpopo province.
Details of the robbery only emerged two years later. The president is accused of hiding the break-in and theft from both the police and tax authorities.
