The impeachment committee tasked with leading an inquiry into South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala scandal held its first meeting on June 1, during which it elected the chief whip of the Rise Mzansi party, Makashule Gana, as the committee's chairperson, Eyewitness News reported on the same day. Following the election, parliamentary leader of the left-wing populist uMkhonto we Sizwe Party John Hlophe argued that Gana would be biased in favor of Ramaphosa because lawmakers aligned with South Africa's coalition government backed his election as chairperson, claiming that these ties would erode the credibility of the impeachment inquiry.

On May 8, South Africa's Constitutional Court ordered the National Assembly to proceed with an impeachment inquiry into Ramaphosa, overturning a 2022 National Assembly vote that blocked an impeachment inquiry from going ahead. This came after the report found prima facie evidence that Ramaphosa's actions surrounding a 2020 robbery at his Phala Phala farm may have breached his oath of office. In late May, Ramaphosa began legal action against the report that advised the inquiry in the Western Cape High Court, seeking a ruling that it be declared invalid and set aside.