THE Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) said on Tuesday it has received a submission from ANC MP Mervyn Dirks on the allegations related to the misuse of public funds by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The committee said Ramaphosa has been given seven to ten working days for the submission of the written response.
Ramaphosa needs to explain to Parliament his alleged utterances made in a leaked audio recording about the use of public funds for party activities.
In the leaked recording, Ramaphosa can be heard saying: “Investigations will reveal that a lot of public money was used (to fund political campaigns). I said, in this case, I am prepared to fall on the sword, so that the CR17 campaign, yes, should be the only one that’s looked at and not the others because the image of the African National Congress is what I am most concerned about.”
Earlier this year, Dirks broke
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