The president acknowledges in his affidavit that the allegations in the criminal complaint laid by Arthur Fraser are ‘serious’
President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: GALLO IMAGES/JEFFREY ABRAHAMS
Her attempt to secure an urgent interim interdict failed on June 10. She has now asked the court to urgently hear Part B, to set aside her suspension and the steps taken by parliament’s impeachment committee so far. But Ramaphosa said in his answering court papers: “I am accountable to the people of SA ... I state unreservedly that I have given my full co-operation to investigations that are under way.”
He acknowledged in his affidavit that the allegations in the criminal complaint laid by Arthur Fraser were “serious”. He said a closer look at the letter from UDM leader Bantu Holomisa showed that it did not — as Mkhwebane claimed — ask her to “investigate whether or not the president was implicated in such corruption or breach of the Executive Members Ethics Act”.the revelations of corruption by Glencore in its guilty plea in the US under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,and had said that “although SA was not specifically cited ... the likelihood of these practices happening in SA is quite high”.
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