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South Africa's top court rules to revive Ramaphosa impeachment proceedings

South Africa's Constitutional Court on Friday overturned a vote in parliament that had quashed the opening of impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over a cash-heist scandal.

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00:00South Africa's constitutional court on Friday overturned a vote in parliament that had squashed the opening of impeachment proceedings against
00:07President Cyril Ramaphosa over a cash haze scandal.
00:10Ramaphosa in 2022 easily survived a vote in the National Assembly that could have initiated proceedings to remove him from
00:18office over allegations that he concealed a huge theft of foreign currency at his Scotland game farm in the year
00:252020.
00:25The National Assembly, where Ramaphosa's ruling African National Congress, N.C., held the majority at the time, rejected an inquiry
00:33panel report that concluded the president may be guilty of misconduct.
00:38The public prosecutor dropped the charges in 2024.
00:42The court decision follows a complaint launched by the radical left-wing Economic Freedom Fighters EFF party.
00:48The scandal revolved around half a million dollars in cash that Ramaphosa acknowledged was stolen from beneath sofa cushion at
00:58his ranch.
00:59The president, who said the man was payment for buffaloes bought by a Sudanese businessman, was accused of failing to
01:07report the matter to the police, as well as abusing his powers and exposing himself to a conflict of interest
01:13over the affair.
01:16The president, who said the vape, who testified to the police officer for Humbria, the border with respect to the
01:18huge authorities, who said the PMO, which is the sole of the destruction of African government, who said the role
01:18of the election of the New York State, who said the man was wrong to bear the law.
01:18The police officer, who said the media, was not a minister of the
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