{"id":35426,"date":"2026-05-26T11:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35426"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:59:20","slug":"sa-president-challenges-panel-report-on-cash-in-sofa-scandal-in-court","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-challenges-panel-report-on-cash-in-sofa-scandal-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President challenges panel report on cash-in-sofa scandal in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South \u200cAfrican President (SA) Cyril Ramaphosa has filed a legal challenge against a panel report \u200bthat found preliminary evidence he committed \u200bmisconduct over a scandal dubbed &#8220;Farmgate&#8221; by \u2060local media, broadcaster\u00a0<i>eNCA\u00a0<\/i>reported \u200bon Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>Reuters<\/i> could not immediately verify \u200bthe report. Ramaphosa&#8217;s Spokesperson Vincent Magwenya did not immediately respond to a <em>Reuters<\/em> request for \u200bcomment.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The scandal centres on the \u200btheft of bundles of foreign currency hidden in \u200ca \u2060sofa at Ramaphosa&#8217;s farm.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It has been a major embarrassment for Ramaphosa since it emerged in 2022, as he \u200bcame to \u200bpower \u2060on a pledge to fight corruption and clean up \u200bthe image of his African \u200bNational \u2060Congress party.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>SA&#8217;s Constitutional Court ruled earlier this month that parliament was wrong to \u2060block \u200bimpeachment proceedings against \u200bRamaphosa in 2022 over the scandal.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31237,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35426","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Ramaphosa has filed a legal challenge against a panel report","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35426","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\/35426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35427,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35426\/revisions\/35427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}