South Africa: ANC, EFF trade legal blows in ConCourt over challenge to Parliament’s Phala Phala vote

The ANC is defending its right to have voted against an impeachment in­­quiry into President Cyril Ramaphosa, denying that a “climate of fear” was used to force its MPs to vote along party lines.

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has hit out at EFF president Julius Malema in court papers, accusing the party of playing politics in the legal arena.

“The EFF labels this application as one brought ‘in defence of the principles of accountability, responsiveness and openness’….