South African court pauses impeachment process against president
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A high court in South Africa on Friday granted President Cyril Ramaphosa an interdict temporarily halting a parliamentary impeachment inquiry against him.
The panel report was rejected in a vote in the National Assembly, where his ruling African National Congress held a majority, quashing the opening of impeachment proceedings at that time.
His advocate had argued that subjecting the president to an impeachment inquiry on the back of a flawed report would “humiliate” him.
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