Riyaz Patel
The Public Protector’s legal team has filed a record of the evidence Busisiwe Mkhwebane relied on in her report on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s CR17 campaign for the ANC presidency.
The submission, to the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, includes bank statements of the various entities involved in the campaign, as well as correspondence that formed part of Mkhwebane’s probe.
Mkhwebane’s legal team also sent a letter to Ramaphosa’s counsel, taking issue with the President’s assertion that the records were obtained illegally.
Ramaphosa has taken Mkhwebane’s report – in which it was found that he deliberately misled Parliament in November last year about a R500,000 Bosasa donation he received for his campaign to become leader of the governing ANC – on review.
The Public Protector also found that the president had violated the executive ethics code.
Under the rules, if a party wants the courts to review the
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