{"id":34248,"date":"2026-05-11T16:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34248"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:40:32","slug":"sas-anc-to-meet-after-court-revives-impeachment-process-against-president","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-anc-to-meet-after-court-revives-impeachment-process-against-president\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s ANC to meet after court revives impeachment process against President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Party Spokesperson Mahlengi \u200bBhengu told <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reuters<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the special National Executive Committee \u2060meeting on Tuesday evening would discuss the \u200bconstitutional court ruling, confirming a<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">report by local media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The scandal centres on the theft of a large amount of foreign currency from a sofa \u200bon Ramaphosa&#8217;s Phala Phala game farm in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ramaphosa \u200bhas denied wrongdoing and said he respects the <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">constitutional court&#8217;s<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> \u200cjudgment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In \u20602022<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, the ANC used its parliamentary majority to block the establishment of an impeachment committee <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">to further investigate<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the incident, which raised <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">questions \u200babout<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">how \u200bRamaphosa<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">acquired \u2060so<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> much cash and whether he <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">declared<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ramaphosa has <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">said<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the money \u200bwas from the proceeds of the sale \u200bof \u2060buffalo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In a separate statement on Monday, parliament said the speaker of the National Assembly would begin \u2060the process \u200bof setting up the \u200bimpeachment committee, as ordered by the <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">constitutional court<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34249,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-34248","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South Africa's (SA) \u200bAfrican National Congress (ANC) party has called a \u200cmeeting of one of its top decision-making bodies after a court ruling that revived impeachment proceedings against President Cyril \u200bRamaphosa over the \"Farmgate\" scandal.","published_date":"","news_description":"South Africa's (SA) \u200bAfrican National Congress (ANC) party has called a \u200cmeeting of one of its top decision-making bodies after a court ruling that revived impeachment proceedings against President Cyril \u200bRamaphosa over the \"Farmgate\" scandal.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34250,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34248\/revisions\/34250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}