South Africa court rules impeachment proceedings against Ramaphosa should not have been blocked

For those who have a paywall South Africa's Constitutional Court has ruled that parliament violated the constitution by blocking moves to impeach President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2022. The ruling came as a result of a legal challenge by opposition parties. A panel of legal experts had originally said that Ramaphosa may have a case to answer after burglars stole more than $500,000 in cash, hidden in a sofa, from his rural home. That theft led to allegations that he had not accounted for where the cash had come from. The president denied wrongdoing. Impeachment proceedings were blocked in a parliamentary vote, at a time when Ramaphosa's African National Congress still had a majority, which it lost at the last election.

Hope this doesn’t ultimately lead to worse leadership. At the rate South Africa is “decolonising” - it wouldn’t surprise me if we saw a return of The Mfecane at some stage.