JOHANNESBURG, June 12 (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa filed an urgent court application on Friday to ‌try to stop a parliamentary impeachment process from starting ‌to probe allegations related to his "Farmgate" scandal, court documents showed.

• Ramaphosa wants ​the high court to first make a decision on a separate application he made to set aside an independent panel's misconduct findings over the scandal, in which bundles of cash ‌were stolen from a ⁠sofa on his farm in 2020.

• The president said $580,000 in cash was stolen and it was ⁠proceeds from the sale of buffaloes, but the episode raised questions about why the money was hidden in furniture and ​whether he ​had declared it. Ramaphosa has ​denied wrongdoing.

• South Africa's ‌constitutional court revived impeachment proceedings against Ramaphosa last month, finding that a parliamentary vote to stop the process in 2022 was invalid.

• The high court is due to hear his case against the misconduct findings from September 2 to 4.

• ‌Ramaphosa, 73, has been head ​of state since 2018 and his ​second presidential term is ​due to end in 2029.

• Farmgate has been ‌a major embarrassment for him ​as he came ​to power on a pledge to fight corruption and clean up the image of his African National Congress (ANC) ​party.

• But political ‌analysts expect him to survive if the impeachment process ​goes to a vote in parliament.

(Reporting by Sfundo ​Parakozov; Editing by Alexander Winning)