# Day two of Impeachment Committee

An episode of [The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1074292047), 14 Oct 2026, 3:15.

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Mandy Wiener speaks to EWN Reporter, Lindsay Dentlinger about day two of the impeachment committee.The Western Cape High Court will hear an appeal against Parliament's Impeachment Committee's decision-making.This relates to the selection of an evidence leader for an investigation into President Cyril Ramaphosa's actions after money was stolen from his Phala Phala farm. The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener is 702 and CapeTalk’s flagship news show, your hour of essential news radio. The show is podcasted every weekday, allowing you to catch up with a 60-minute weekday wrap of the day's main news. It's packed with fast-paced interviews with the day’s newsmakers, as well as those who can make sense of the news and explain what's happening in your world. All the interviews are podcasted for you to catch up and listen to. Thank you for listening to this podcast of The Midday Report Listen live on weekdays between 12:00 and 13:00 (SA Time) to The Midday Report broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from The Midday Report go to https://buff.ly/BTGmL9H and find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/LcbDdFI Subscribe to the 702 and CapeTalk daily and weekly newsletters https://buff.ly/v5mfetc Follow us on social media: 702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/Radio702 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702 CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: In the Western Cape High Court, the EFF and the
[0:02] Speaker 1: African Legal Professionals Association challenging the Section 89 Impeachment Committee's
[0:07] Speaker 1: decision to rescind the appointment of advocate Tandazani Madonsela as
[0:12] Speaker 1: evidence leader. Yesterday, we heard from the applicants. Today, we're
[0:16] Speaker 1: hearing from the respondents. So the Impeachment Committee's lawyers responding,
[0:21] Speaker 1: Lindsay Dentlinger, EWN Parliamentary Reporter. is there for us. Lindsay,
[0:25] Speaker 1: afternoon to you. Take us through the arguments being made today.
[0:28] Speaker 1: Advocate Camille Prometta, I think, is arguing.
[0:32] Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Mandy. Yes, he seems to be nearing the
[0:35] Speaker 2: end of almost three hours of arguments before the court
[0:39] Speaker 2: on that recommendation of advocate Tandazani Madansela, and importantly, pointing
[0:44] Speaker 2: out to this court that, if I could say, it
[0:47] Speaker 2: was merely a recommendation. There was yet no process to
[0:52] Speaker 2: appoint him. This was part of a process to get
[0:55] Speaker 2: to that particular point. And Advocate Premit really trying to
[1:01] Speaker 2: bring home the point that the actions that Parliament took
[1:05] Speaker 2: or this committee took in this particular matter, first to
[1:08] Speaker 2: make that recommendation and then later to rescind it, it
[1:11] Speaker 2: wasn't acting on external pressures from anyone, least of all
[1:15] Speaker 2: the President, who also objected to this recommendation being made final,
[1:21] Speaker 2: saying that what the committee was doing really was to
[1:24] Speaker 2: protect the integrity of this process, that it had adopted
[1:27] Speaker 2: a higher bar than the average for determining what would
[1:33] Speaker 2: be considered a high threshold for integrity, and that all
[1:39] Speaker 2: the information that was put before it, be that from
[1:42] Speaker 2: ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbulula, what MPs may or may not
[1:46] Speaker 2: have known when they took that initial recommendation what Advocate
[1:50] Speaker 2: Madden-Seller himself declared to the committee. All these were factors
[1:54] Speaker 2: that it has taken into account to make sure that
[1:57] Speaker 2: this process is beyond reproach and that it could not
[2:03] Speaker 2: be argued for certain what MPs did and did not
[2:07] Speaker 2: know about the extent to which Advocate Madden-Seller at the
[2:11] Speaker 2: time was consulting with the ANC on matters related to
[2:16] Speaker 2: these impeachment proceedings, Mandy.
[2:18] Speaker 1: So, Lindsay, once Advocate Camille is done, what happens then?
[2:22] Speaker 1: Is anybody else due to argue?
[2:25] Speaker 2: Well, we expect the two applicants, the EFF and the
[2:32] Speaker 2: Legal Professionals Association. It gets me so tangled with that one.
[2:39] Speaker 2: That they will be allowed to respond to the allegations
[2:44] Speaker 2: or the arguments that Advocate Premit, as I stepped out
[2:47] Speaker 2: of the courtroom, was saying that they had not followed
[2:50] Speaker 2: through on the arguments that they had raised. flip-flopped between
[2:54] Speaker 2: what they had put in their motion to the court
[2:56] Speaker 2: and their arguments to the court and subsequently their heads
[2:59] Speaker 2: of argument and to respond to that. So we do
[3:03] Speaker 2: expect proceedings to carry on into the afternoon, Mandy.
[3:07] Speaker 1: Lindsay, thank you. Lindsay Dentlinger, EWN parliamentary reporter, speaking to
[3:10] Speaker 1: us there about that application currently being heard in the
[3:14] Speaker 1: Western Cape High Court.

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