Nigeria, May 12 -- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said he would not resign but would instead contest the panel report on his "farmgate scandal."

"I will not resign," he said during a televised address on Monday.

"To do so will be to pre-empt a process designed by the constitution. To do so will give credence to a panel review that, unfortunately, has grave flaws. To do so will be to abdicate the responsibility that I assumed when I became President of the Republic."

Calls for his resignation intensified after the constitutional court ruled last Friday that the National Assembly's decision to block impeachment proceedings against him over the scandal was illegal.

The court also ruled that the panel's report should be table...