South Africa's Constitutional Court has ruled that parliament violated the constitution by blocking moves to impeach President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2022.
The ruling came as a result of a legal challenge by opposition parties. A panel of legal experts had originally said that Ramaphosa may have a case to answer after burglars stole more than $500,000 in cash, hidden in a sofa, from his rural home.
That theft led to allegations that he had not accounted for where the cash had come from. The president denied wrongdoing.
Impeachment proceedings were blocked in a parliamentary vote, at a time when Ramaphosa's African National Congress still had a majority, which it lost at the last election.
