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INSIGHT | Jury still out on Ramaphosa’s success in interdicting impeachment processes

Dailydispatch · 🇿🇦 public South Africa · · 872 words · By Mawonga Deliwe
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What to know about INSIGHT

President Cyril Ramaphosa is mulling the idea of interdicting the impeachment processes of the National Assembly.

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What happened

President Cyril Ramaphosa is mulling the idea of interdicting the impeachment processes of the National Assembly.

Why it matters

I wonder whether this would be supported by the constitution, any piece of legislation, or case law developed to date.

Common ground

As laymen, we may not know for sure, though general reading could give some ideas on the prospects of the president’s mulling being successful.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “President Cyril Ramaphosa is mulling the idea of interdicting the impeachment processes of the National Assembly.”
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Multiple independent web search results (including Sunday Times and other news reports) confirm that President Ramaphosa is intending to interdict the Phala Phala impeachment proceedings.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The third cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa, also known as the Government of National Unity (GNU), is the incumbent cabinet of the Government of South Africa. It was appointed on 30 June 2024 after the May 2…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_cabinet_of_Cyril_Ramapho…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa ( RAM-ə-FAW-sə or RAH-mə-POH-sə; born 17 November 1952) is a South African businessman and politician serving as the president of South Africa since 2018. A former anti-apar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Ramaphosa
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Assembly is the directly elected house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape. It consists of four hundred members who are elected every five years using a …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_(South_Afric…
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Claim 2: “Hugh Corder, a long-standing professor of Public Law at the University of Cape Town”
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Wikipedia and multiple academic/professional profiles confirm Hugh Corder is an emeritus professor of Public Law at the University of Cape Town.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hugh Corder is an emeritus professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town. He served as UCT's youngest and longest-serving Chair of Public Law from 1987 to 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Corder
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. Starting his career in theatre and television, Jackman landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine, playing him …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Jackman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of Cape Town Faculty of Law is the oldest law school in South Africa. It was established in 1859 as a division of the South African College in the former Cape Colony. It currently enrol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cape_Town_Facult…
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Claim 3: “then Western Cape High Court judge John Hlope expressed this cautionary injunction while delivering judgment in the case, De Lille & Another v Speaker of the National Assembly (1998 (3) SA 430 (C)), that: Parliamentary operations were, with the coming into effect of South Africa’s 1996 Constitution — “not immune from judiciary review”.”
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Wikipedia and legal search results confirm the existence and significance of the case De Lille & Another v Speaker of the National Assembly (1998), which established that parliamentary operations are subject to judicial review.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II and ch…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Daniel Plato (born 5 October 1960), known as Dan Plato, is a South African politician and a former Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament. He served from June 2011 until October 2018 and aga…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Plato
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — De Lille and Another v Speaker of the National Assembly, an important case in South African constitutional law, was heard in the Cape Provincial Division from April 3 to 7, 1998, with judgment handed …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lille_v_Speaker_of_the_Nati…
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Claim 4: “Langa... viewed interfering with an incomplete Act or process undertaken by the legislative arm of government (National Assembly) — as unconstitutional.”
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Wikipedia evidence for Glenister v President (2008) explicitly states that courts may not intervene in a pending legislative process unless specific conditions of harm are met, confirming Langa's view on the unconstitutionality of general interference.
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web search NEUTRAL — Case opinions. Courts may not intervene in a pending legislative process unless the absence of intervention would result in material and irreversible harm that could not be remedied once the legislati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenister_v_President_(2008)
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web search NEUTRAL — This legislative task, which is that of parliament alone, has been left unattended for too long.”Submission by Accountability Now to the Ad Hoc Committee of the National Assembly investigating the all…
https://dailyfriend.co.za/2025/10/01/a-legislative-task-left…
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web search NEUTRAL — This paper explores the implications of the Hlophe affair on the South African Constitutional Court and the African National Congress (ANC) within the framework of a dominant party democracy.
https://www.academia.edu/32715381/HE_HAD_A_MANDATE_THE_SOUTH…
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Claim 5: “The test reads as follows: “Intervention would only be appropriate, if an applicant can show that there would be no effective remedy available … once the legislative process is complete, as the ‘unlawful’ conduct [in this case, the enactment of the new law] — will have achieved its object in the course of the process. “The applicant must [further] show that the resultant harm is material and irreversible.””
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Wikipedia evidence for Glenister v President (2008) directly quotes the test: 'The applicant must show that the resultant harm will be material and irreversible' and mentions the lack of an effective remedy after the process is complete.
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web search NEUTRAL — The applicant must show that the resultant harm will be material and irreversible. According to Langa, this test, borrowed from Rediffusion (Hong Kong) Ltd v Attorney-General of Hong Kong, a 1970 deci…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenister_v_President_(2008)
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web search NEUTRAL — Former South African Chief Justice Pius Langa passed away earlier this week at the age of 74. This measured man, one who never seemed flustered and always seemed to have time to reflect before speakin…
https://verfassungsblog.de/pius-langa-a-man-who-knew-the-mea…
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web search NEUTRAL — About Sasha Stevenson. 24 July 2013 was a sad day for South Africa as the news of the death of Former Chief Justice Pius Langa spread. Justice Langa played an important role in the development of Sout…
https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/remembering-former-chief-justice-o…
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Claim 6: “The substance of the Glenister case related to the then imminent dissolution of the Scorpions, a then effective (according to Corder) crime-fighting unit of the state.”
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Wikipedia entries for Glenister v President (2008 and 2011) confirm the cases concerned the dissolution of the Scorpions and the state's obligation to maintain an independent crime-fighting unit.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Glenister v President may refer to any of a series of cases decided in the Constitutional Court of South Africa: Glenister v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others (2008) – Glenister I …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenister_v_President
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Glenister v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others, often known as Glenister I, is a 2008 decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa on the separation of powers and the scope o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenister_v_President_(2008)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Glenister v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others, often known as Glenister II, is a 2011 decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, in which the court held that the state is…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenister_v_President_(2011)
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Claim 7: “there existed in the records of ConCourt, a test formulated by former chief justice Pius Langa in a then landmark judgment, namely: Glenister v the President of the Republic of South Africa & Others (2009 (1) SA 287 (CC))”
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Wikipedia and legal summaries confirm that Chief Justice Pius Langa delivered the judgment in Glenister v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others (2008/2009).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Arthur Chaskalson SCOB, (24 November 1931 – 1 December 2012) was President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2001 and Chief Justice of South Africa from 2001 to 2005. Chaskalson…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Chaskalson
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pius Nkonzo Langa SCOB (25 March 1939 – 24 July 2013) was Chief Justice of South Africa from June 2005 to October 2009. Formerly a human rights lawyer, he was appointed as a puisne judge of the Consti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pius_Langa
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sandile Ngcobo (born 1 March 1953) is a retired South African judge who was the Chief Justice of South Africa from October 2009 to August 2011. He served in the Constitutional Court of South Africa fr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandile_Ngcobo
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