{"id":34347,"date":"2026-05-13T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34347"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:45:00","slug":"sa-president-court-bid-unlikely-to-stop-impeachment-process","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-court-bid-unlikely-to-stop-impeachment-process\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President court bid unlikely to stop impeachment process"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Legal experts say South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s court challenge of the Section 89 Independent Panel Report is unlikely to automatically halt impeachment-related proceedings in Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The President has indicated he will seek a review of the report following a ruling by the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Constitutional and legal analysts are divided over the impact on the National Assembly&#8217;s next steps, including the possible establishment of an impeachment committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Some argue that Parliament must proceed, while others warn that legal processes could still cause delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34272,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-34347","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA President Cyril Ramaphosa","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34347","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\/34347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34348,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34347\/revisions\/34348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}