THE Office of the Public Protector has cleared President Cyril Ramaphosa of any wrongdoing in a preliminary report on the Phala Phala farm robbery scandal.
The report was leaked to various media houses on Saturday morning.
While the report exonerates Ramaphosa, the Public Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka said the Head of the Presidential Protection Unit to whom the president reported the crime acted improperly by investigating the case directly instead of reporting it to the police.
In a media statement on Saturday, Gcaleka confirmed that the report was delivered to the affected and implicated persons in the Phala-Phala farm investigation.
She said complainants and all implicated persons had 10 days to make representations to the Public Protector on the draft report.
“The notice encloses the preliminary findings of the Public Protector and provides recipients with an opportunity to respond to the Public Protector’s preliminary findings. The affected and implicated persons
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