ANC's Mbalula Backs Ramaphosa Over $580,000 Farmgate Cash as Court Revives Impeachment
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Updated · Reuters · May 13
ANC's Mbalula Backs Ramaphosa Over $580,000 Farmgate Cash as Court Revives Impeachment
4 articles · Updated · Reuters · May 13
$580,000 at the center of the Farmgate scandal again dominated ANC politics after Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula publicly backed President Cyril Ramaphosa and rejected calls for him to resign.
Last week's Constitutional Court ruling revived impeachment proceedings that the ANC had blocked in 2022, prompting the party's National Executive Committee to review the judgment and decide its response.
Ramaphosa will skip the NEC meeting so senior ANC members can debate freely, while Mbalula said the court ruling did not require the president to step down.
The case has embarrassed Ramaphosa, who won office in 2018 promising to fight corruption, but analysts say he is still likely to survive because impeachment needs a two-thirds majority and the ANC holds about 40% of parliament.
The ANC blocked impeachment once. Will its new coalition partners save Ramaphosa from Farmgate this time?
With $580,000 found in a sofa, can Ramaphosa's anti-corruption presidency survive the revived Farmgate scandal?