{"id":244459,"date":"2022-12-01T09:28:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T07:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/president-ramaphosa-denies-violating-oath-of-office\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T09:28:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T07:28:49","slug":"president-ramaphosa-denies-violating-oath-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/president-ramaphosa-denies-violating-oath-of-office\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ramaphosa denies violating oath of office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202212\/cyrilramaphosaflagmic.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa says he \u201ccategorically denies\u201d allegations that he has violated his oath of office.<\/p>\n<p>This as the independent Section 89 panel \u2013 formed to look into the robbery at the Phala Phala game farm \u2013 found that the President may have seriously violated sections 96(2)(a) of the Constitution and Section 34(1) of the &nbsp;Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities (PRECCA) Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have endeavoured, throughout my tenure as President, not only to abide by my oath but to set an example of respect for the Constitution, for its institutions, for due process and the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI categorically deny that I have violated this oath in any way, and I similarly deny that I am guilty of any of the allegations made against me,\u201d President Ramaphosa said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Presidency said it \u201cnoted\u201d the report of the panel which was handed over to National Assembly (NA) Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe s89 process has presented an unprecedented and extraordinary moment for South Africa\u2019s constitutional democracy. The conclusions of the panel require careful reading and appropriate consideration in the interest of the stability of government and that of the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Presidency appreciates that according to the rules of the National Assembly, the NA needs to consider the report and determine the most appropriate way forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President is giving consideration to the report and an announcement will be made in due course,\u201d the Presidency said in a statement on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the Speaker said the NA will consider and adopt a resolution on the report of the Section 89 independent panel into President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday next week.<\/p>\n<p>The panel investigated whether there is sufficient evidence to show that President Ramaphosa violated any grounds of impeachment set out in Section 89 of the Constitution linked to his conduct related to a robbery at his Phala Phala game farm in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The section provides that a sitting President can be removed on these grounds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>serious violation of the Constitution or the law<\/li>\n<li>serious misconduct<\/li>\n<li>inability to perform the functions of office<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa says he \u201ccategorically denies\u201d allegations that he has violated his oath of office. This as the independent Section 89 panel \u2013 formed to look into the robbery at the Phala Phala game farm \u2013 found that the President may have seriously violated sections 96(2)(a) of the Constitution and Section 34(1) of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-244459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/president-ramaphosa-denies-violating-oath-of-office.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}