New Delhi, May 9 -- South Africa's highest court has set aside a vote by lawmakers to reject a report that found credible evidence of wrongdoing by President Cyril Ramaphosa related to a long-running cash scandal. The court verdict Friday could pave the way for impeachment proceedings against him.

Ramaphosa had survived a motion to face impeachment proceedings in 2022, when lawmakers from his African National Congress party voted to reject a scathing report that recommended a full investigation into why he had $580,000 in cash stashed in a couch, which he reported missing in a theft at his Phala Phala game farm.

The Constitutional Court ruling means the report must now be referred to an impeachment committee for a full investigation, wh...