CAIPHUS KGOSANA | Ramaphosa may have won round 1, but the next two may prove more taxing
The president and his legal team have deftly turned the tables on the independent panel, but it may be inconsequential in the end
06 December 2022 - 20:54
You don’t need a legal degree to deduce upon your first reading of the report of the independent panel set up by parliament to probe the Phala Phala saga, that it will be set aside by the first court asked to review it. Given the massive impact of the findings on him and the office he holds, President Cyril Ramaphosa has gone straight to the Constitutional Court for relief, and I suspect it will hear him out...
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