Judge appears unsympathetic to Ramaphosa’s concerns about impeachment committee
On Thursday, Western Cape High Court judges André le Grange, Matthew Francis and Diane Davis sat through the second and last day of the arguments in the president’s urgent application to halt the Section 89 impeachment process pending the review of the Section 89 Independent Panel report, scheduled for September 2 to 4.‘Humiliation is part of the job’ Trengove further reiterated the president’s fear of a humiliation ritual should the impeachment process go ahead before his review application is heard.
So, when this application was launched, the president must have known that he could not get the relief of no commencement, so the court cannot grant an order in respect of something that has already happened, and to try to stop that, you cannot [do so] in court.
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