PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has told Parliament that he has no control to unseal confidential Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) documents containing a list of donors who contributed to the CR17 campaign.
Ramaphosa was responding to a question from the EFF leader Julius Malema and other MPs in the National Assembly on Thursday afternoon.
The FIC is opposing an application by the EFF to unseal the court record in last year’s Pretoria High Court battle between the president and the Public Protector.
“The bank statements in question are from accounts over which I do not have any form of control. They belong to entities and private companies which I do not control and whose internal financial affairs are protected by the country’s privacy laws,” said Ramaphosa.
“It is therefore not within my power to make any of them public.”
The court is still to decide whether EFF should be allowed to access
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