THE FUSE

When the Section 89 panel report was first published in June 2022, President Cyril Ramaphosa almost resigned until persuaded against doing so by senior ANC leaders. The EFF has won a slam-dunk victory in the Constitutional Court which found that the rule Parliament relied on to avoid tabling and discussing the report before putting it to a vote is unconstitutional. Parliament is a very different place to what it was in 2022 before the ANC’s loss of its majority in the 2024 election. The opposition is bigger and far more empowered than it was in 2022.