THE top leadership of South Africa’s ruling party is set to meet on Thursday for the first time since President Cyril Ramaphosa became embroiled in a scandal over foreign currency that was stolen from his game farm.
The gathering of the African National Congress’s national executive committee, its highest decision-making body, will also be its first since a panel that’s been probing graft issued its final report, which made scathing findings against the party and criticised Ramaphosa for failing to speak out about corruption during his predecessor Jacob Zuma’s rule.
Former spy boss Arthur Fraser this month alleged that $4 million was stolen from Ramaphosa’s farm in 2020, that the crime wasn’t properly reported to the police and those involved were illegally detained and interrogated.
Ramaphosa confirmed that money he made from selling animals was taken but far less than Fraser alleged, denied wrongdoing and offered to go before the
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