ActionSA legally challenging classification of the Phala Phala investigation report

Political parties have again revived the burglary at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm, with plans to legally challenge the classification of the investigation report.

ActionSA said that it has already begun preparing legal papers to challenge the decision of the Independent Police Investigating Directorate (IPID) to classify its report into the conduct of the presidential protection unit members as “top secret”.

Members of Parliament (MPs) have also slammed the Constitutional Court for delaying delivering judgment on the EFF's challenge of the Section 89 panel report, which found prima facie evidence of misconduct by Ramaphosa.

ActionSA said that it is legally challenging the classification of the IPID report following an appeal filed last month which was ignored by the police watchdog.

The party's national chairperson, Michael Beaumont, said, " legal papers will challenge the constitutionality of the cabinet policy that allows for a wide range of state actors to classify a report this important as top secret. "

Meanwhile the African Transformation Movement (ATM) MP Vuyo Zungula told the National Assembly ton Tuesday that the Constitutional Court has failed by not delivering judgment on the EFF' own review application.

"The highest court in the land has failed to issue a judgment pertaining to a failure of Parliament to hold accountable a sitting head of state over his alleged abuses of power for over a year in the Phala Phala matter."

ActionSA said that it will challenge the rationality of the decision to classify the IPID report as top secret and ask the courts to compel IPID to hand over the report to ActionSA.