The African Transformation Movement’s (ATM) court papers on Phala Phala were “an unfortunate nit-picking exercise” and did not meet the standard for a successful court review, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in court papers on Tuesday.

Ramaphosa was responding to the ATM’s court challenge, filed in July last year, to the public protector’s Phala Phala report, which cleared him of breaches of the executive ethics code in relation to the burglary at his Limpopo game farm in 2020...

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