'Cyril is protecting future presidents': Presidency defends Phala Phala bid as grilling intensifies

State pays bulk of Ramaphosa's Phala Phala game farm court bill

The state is paying most of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s legal costs in his court bid to stop Parliament’s Phala Phala impeachment hearings, the Western Cape High Court heard on Thursday. Ramaphosa’s counsel, Advocate Wim Trengove SC, made the disclosure after an opposing lawyer said the president was funding the case privately. “The bulk of his costs are apparently paid by the state, and the president pays some of it,” Trengove said. “I have no …

'Cyril is protecting future presidents': Presidency defends Phala Phala bid as grilling intensifies

A president acting selflessly to protect the office for all who will hold it after him, or a man clinging to power who cannot stomach the “humiliation of accountability”? These dramatically different portraits of Cyril Ramaphosa emerged on Wednesday, one painted by his spin doctor, the other by a host of political parties in the Western Cape High Court. It is in this court that Ramaphosa is asking for the impeachment inquiry against him to be st…