THE DA said on Thursday that it will continue to push for President Cyril Ramaphosa to appear before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) to explain his stated knowledge of the misuse of State funds.
This comes after the ANC voted on Wednesday night against Ramaphosa appearing before SCOPA.
The committee’s meeting on Wednesday dealt with the response received from Ramaphosa as well as a legal opinion obtained from the parliamentary legal office regarding the leaked recording of the president addressing an ANC meeting and saying:
“Each one of us knows that quite a bit of money that is used in campaigns in bussing people around, in doing all manner of things is often from State Resources and Public Resources and we cannot kid ourselves when it comes to that.”
DA Member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Alf Lees said on Thursday that the decision by the ANC to block the president’s appearance ‘is a
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