Major South African opposition party, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has engaged the country’s top court on Tuesday to try to revive impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over the scandal dubbed “Farmgate” by local media.
The Farmgate scandal involving the South African president centred on the alleged theft of millions hidden in furniture on Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala game farm, which a former intelligence official revealed to police in 2020.
In late 2022 lawmakers from Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC), which had a majority in the National Assembly at the time, voted to reject the report and prevented an impeachment committee from being set up to probe the allegations.
The EFF per reports are not satisfied with the level of interrogations which were carried out on the South African President before being cleared of all charges leveled against him last month.
However, Ramaphosa and the ANC say the report did not provide sufficient evidence to support its findings and relied on hearsay, according to a summary of the case published by the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg.