Ramaphosa Asks a Cape Town Court to Set Aside the Phala Phala Report

SOUTH AFRICA · POLITICS

Key Facts

—What is challenged President Cyril Ramaphosa is asking the Western Cape High Court to review and set aside the Section 89 Independent Panel report of November 30, 2022, which found he had a case to answer over the Phala Phala affair.

—The bench Judge President Nolwazi Mabindla-Boqwana is sitting with Judge Mark Sher and Judge Ncumisa Mayosi; the hearing opened on September 2 and was set down for three days.

—The origin Thieves took about US$580,000 in foreign currency, by the president’s own account, from a sofa at his Phala Phala game farm in Limpopo on February 9, 2020, and the theft stayed secret until June 2022.