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South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa narrowly avoided impeachment after a court temporarily halted proceedings over the “Phala-Phala scandal”—a $500K cash disappearance from his farm in 2020. While the court pause doesn’t kill the process, it delays the committee’s investigation into how he handled the funds and why he didn’t report it to police. Ramaphosa’s legal battle, backed by his party’s earlier veto, has turned this into a high-stakes constitutional drama—with political parties now weighing whether to challenge the ruling. The drama’s far from over.

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