{"id":43085,"date":"2026-08-19T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43085"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:00:56","slug":"sa-president-raises-objections-over-impeachment-committees-recommended-evidence-leader","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-raises-objections-over-impeachment-committees-recommended-evidence-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President raises objections over impeachment committee&#8217;s recommended evidence leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Parliament&#8217;s Impeachment Committee has confirmed receiving a letter from President Cyril Ramaphosa in which he&#8217;s raised objections with its recommended evidence leader.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The committee is busy with administrative work, including appointing an evidence leader and finalising its terms of reference.<\/p>\n<p>This, after the Western Cape High Court ruled that the committee&#8217;s hearings must be put on ice. At its last meeting the committee recommended to the Speaker Thoko Didiza that advocate Thandazani Madonsela would be its evidence leader.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa has cited two instances of conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34277,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-43085","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ramaphosa has cited two instances of conflict of interest.","published_date":"","news_description":"Ramaphosa has cited two instances of conflict of interest.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43085","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\/43085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43086,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43085\/revisions\/43086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}