CONTROVERSIAL Nelson Mandela Bay ANC councillor Andile Lungisa has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to appear before the party’s integrity commission over R1bn in donations paid to the CR17 campaign.
In a hard-hitting letter addressed to the party’s national officials, Lungisa it was unheard of in the ANC that someone would raise money from businesses to campaign for the highest position in the party.
Ramaphosa has been under fire since emails and bank statements were leaked related to the December 2017 Nasrec conference for his campaign, which saw him win the ANC presidency in a tightly contested race against Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
The campaign, popularly known as the CR17 campaign, was also the subject of an investigation by the Public Protector.
“In the history of the ANC this has never happened,” writes Lungisa.
“It is foreign culture in the movement where money is raised by business people in support of
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