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Phala Phala farm
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) says the Constitutional Court’s ruling in the Phala Phala matter strengthens its position that President Cyril Ramaphosa should not remain in office while facing serious allegations linked to the Section 89 panel findings.
The court has invalidated Parliament’s December 2022 decision to reject an independent panel’s report on the Phala Phala farm theft saga where more than 500 000 US dollars from Ramaphosa’s farm went missing in February 2020.
The matter was brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the African Transformation Movement (ATM) where the parties were seeking to overturn Parliament’s decision to block an impeachment inquiry against Ramaphosa.
The party says the judgment reinforces the need for urgent political and legal accountability processes to be pursued without delay.
MKP national spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndlhela says the President should resign immediately, arguing that the allegations undermine the integrity of the office and place undue strain on public confidence in the Presidency and the state.
” The President, who is a very dishonorable and despicable man, must do the right thing, which is resign. The President cannot, and we cannot as a country, have a President who is implicated in criminality when the office of the President is supposed to be beyond reproach, and willy-nilly and nonchalantly allow this man to continue to loiter in the Union Buildings. The President, Mr. Ramaphosa, we call upon you to resign effective immediately and save us and the state unnecessary costs, unnecessary pain that we have endured for the past eight years.”
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Meanwhile, Johannesburg residents have expressed mixed reactions to the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the Phala Phala matter.
” If President Ramaphosa is guilty of wrongdoing. He’s not above the law, and justice must take its course. I feel that this is something for South Africans to appreciate that no one is above the law,” says one of the residents.
