Parliament’s Impeachment Committee is forging ahead with its preparatory work despite a Western Cape High Court interdict that halted its Section 89 public hearings. The political optics generated by the Western Cape High Court’s judgment are deeply unedifying, says the writer.
Prof. Sipho Seepe
The Western Cape High Court’s decision to halt Parliament’s impeachment proceedings is merely the latest episode in the unrelenting crisis of leadership and trust that continues to engulf President Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency.
At the heart of this crisis lies the constitutional demand for accountability—a demand Ramaphosa has perfected the art of evading at every turn.
The legal drama now playing out before the public centres on technical arguments over whether the independent parliamentary panel, chaired by former Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo and composed of distinguished legal minds, applied the correct test when it concluded that Ramaphosa may well be guilty of a gross violation of the Constitution and anti-corruption statutes.
