South African Parliament Speaker not to oppose Ramaphosa’s bid to halt impeachment inquiry

CAPE TOWN, June 21– South Africa’s Parliament Speaker Thokozile Didiza will not oppose President Cyril Ramaphosa’s urgent bid to halt the impeachment proceedings, the Parliament said Sunday.

Ramaphosa filed an urgent application on June 12, seeking to suspend the Impeachment Committee’s work while challenging the findings of an independent panel report into the Phala Phala affair. In court papers, he argued that the proceedings should be paused pending a judicial review of the report.

On May 26, the president launched a separate challenge asking the Western Cape High Court to review and set aside the panel’s findings.