TimesLIVE reports that ANC alliance partner Cosatu believes those calling for President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign from his position after the adverse findings of the section 89 independent panel report on the Phala Phala debacle are jumping the gun.

The panel last week found Ramaphosa has an impeachable case to answer over the theft of dollars at his farm in Limpopo. Some sections of the ANC – and many parties represented in parliament – want Ramaphosa to step down, but the calls were rejected by the governing party’s national executive committee (NEC) on Monday. The NEC resolved to allow Ramaphosa the opportunity to take the report on review in court. Ramaphosa filed his judicial review application in the Constitutional Court on Monday. Cosatu commented as follows: “We believe the calls for the president to step aside are premature, considering the report is yet to be subjected to scrutiny and has not been processed and finalised. It is only fair and just for him to be given an opportunity to read and dissect the report with his legal team to ensure in the end justice prevails. We urge members of the ANC not to be tempted to use this incomplete process to opportunistically fight their internal battles in the build-up to the party’s 55th national conference. According to Cosatu, the ANC “needs to focus on the myriad challenges bedevilling it and genuinely commit to a robust process of renewal.”

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