{"id":44513,"date":"2026-09-03T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44513"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:19:57","slug":"sa-presidents-court-bid-to-set-aside-section-89-report-resumes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-presidents-court-bid-to-set-aside-section-89-report-resumes\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President\u2019s court bid to set aside Section 89 report resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The hearing of South Africa (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s application to review the Section 89 Independent Panel report will continue in the Western Cape High Court on Thursday morning.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">He wants the court to set aside the report, which found strong evidence that he may have violated his oath of office regarding the theft at his Phala Phala farm, in Limpopo province.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">On Wednesday, lawyers representing Ramaphosa argued that the panel, which was led by retired Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo, erred in its mandate and applied the wrong legal standard, with no interrogation of the evidence before it, which remains untested.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div>The nine respondents include some political parties represented in Parliament as well as National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30059,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-44513","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"He wants the court to set aside the report, which found strong evidence that he may have violated his oath of office regarding the theft at his Phala Phala farm, in Limpopo province.","published_date":"","news_description":"He wants the court to set aside the report, which found strong evidence that he may have violated his oath of office regarding the theft at his Phala Phala farm, in Limpopo province.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44513","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\/44513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44514,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44513\/revisions\/44514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}