President Cyril Ramaphosa has formally opposed an application seeking to overturn a court order that temporarily halted Parliament’s Section 89 impeachment inquiry into the Phala Phala saga. The committee and the political parties want the Constitutional Court to set aside the interim interdict so that the impeachment process can proceed without further delay. “The applications share one premise: that the High Court blocked or suspended an order of this court. He argues that the High Court did not interfere with a Constitutional Court order but merely granted interim relief pending the determination of the review proceedings. It can hardly hold a hearing in the third term of Parliament whether or not the High Court granted the interdict.”