{"id":43257,"date":"2026-08-20T12:31:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43257"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:31:26","slug":"advocate-madonsela-dismisses-sa-presidents-objection-to-appointment","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/advocate-madonsela-dismisses-sa-presidents-objection-to-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocate\u00a0Madonsela dismisses SA President\u2019s objection to appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Advocate Thandazani Madonsela who has been selected as evidence leader in South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Parliament Impeachment Committee, has described as irrelevant President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s objection to his appointment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Ramaphosa cited conflict of interest as the basis of his objection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He says that Madonsela may habour a grievance against him because he had removed him as an appointee to the Judicial Service Commission shortly after the interviews for the appointment of the Chief Justice in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Ramaphosa&#8217;s second concern relates to Madonsela&#8217;s public comments on the Phala Phala saga.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The committee has resolved to obtain legal advice after receiving Ramaphosa&#8217;s letter on his objection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42332,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-43257","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Madonsela described as irrelevant President Cyril Ramaphosa's objection","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43257","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\/43257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43258,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43257\/revisions\/43258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}