PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday denied the alleged theft of $4 million (R61.8 million) in cash at his Limpopo-based Phala Phala farm in 2020, accusing his detractors of having a political agenda.
Ramaphosa was addressing the closing of the ANC Limpopo Conference, where his close ally Stanley Mathabatha was re-elected as the party’s Limpopo provincial chairperson.
“I have never stolen money from anyone. My integrity as a leader will never allow me to do so,” Ramaphosa told delegates at the conference.
Ramaphosa explained that he was a livestock farmer and the millions allegedly stolen from his farm were proceeds from the sale of game.
He said that some of his sales of game were sometimes in the form of cash payments or transfers.
“I’m in the cattle business and the game business, and through that business – which has been declared in Parliament and all over – I buy and
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