{"id":40478,"date":"2026-07-24T10:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40478"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:31:39","slug":"sa-high-court-stops-impeachment-committee","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-high-court-stops-impeachment-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"SA High Court stops Impeachment Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Western Cape High Court has interdicted Parliament&#8217;s Impeachment Committee from continuing with its public proceedings.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>President Cyril Ramaphosa approached the court to halt the Impeachment process pending his application to review the Section 89 Independent Panel report, which found that he had a case to answer in the theft on his Phala Phala farm.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The committee has been diligently continuing with its work, having met to iron out its terms of reference and names for a possible evidence leader this week.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Committee Chairperson, Makashule Gana, has consistently said the committee will crack on, until a court rules otherwise.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30072,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-40478","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Court pauses parliament's impeachment process","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":"Court has interdicted Parliament's Impeachment Committee from continuing with its public proceedings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40478","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\/40478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40479,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40478\/revisions\/40479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}