South Africa's parliament held the first meeting of a special 31-member impeachment committee on Monday to examine allegations against President Cyril Ramaphosa stemming from the so-called 'Farmgate' scandal, in which large sums of cash were discovered hidden in a sofa at his private game farm in 2020. The proceedings, revived this month by the Constitutional Court, could complicate Ramaphosa's hold on power, though analysts note any impeachment vote would require a two-thirds parliamentary majority — a threshold his party, the African National Congress (ANC), which holds roughly 40% of seats, could help block. Ramaphosa, who denies wrongdoing, has filed a legal challenge against an independent panel's preliminary finding of possible misconduct and has threatened to seek a court order suspending the process while that challenge remains active.