PHUTI MOSOMANE
THE Committee for Section 194 Enquiry into Public Protector’s fitness to hold office heard testimony from the Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane about the CR17 and Bosasa investigation, and report.
The report and investigation by the office of the Public Protector refers to President Cyril Ramaphosa as the then Deputy President of the ANC’s 2017 donor funding campaign in his bid to become ANC President.
The Public Protector found that there was “prima facie” evidence that CR17 campaign was involved in money-laundering because of the movement of monies into various accounts.
The courts, however, ruled that money-laundering must involve the proceeds of crime and that no evidence existed that this was the case in relation to CR17 donations.
According to Mkhwebane’s affidavit, important players in the South African economy paid millions of rands into the CR17-campaign, raising reasonable suspicion that they were buying influence, so that in turn, several officials
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