OPINIONISTA: Ramaphosa-Bosasa, Zuma-Gupta: same game, different players By Mmusi Maimane MmusiMaimane
This week, President Ramaphosa’s son, Andile Ramaphosa, admitted that he received over R2-million from Bosasa as a monthly retainer fee starting in December 2017, the month his father was elected ANC President.
This has enabled an ANC-connected elite to enrich themselves while also entrenching their political power to facilitate ongoing elite enrichment. This is profoundly anti-democratic, deeply corrupt, and unequivocally against the public interest.lies at the heart of SA’s battle to evolve from a young, highly unequal democracy to a mature, broadly prosperous one.
President Ramaphosa’s actions in relation to these revelations are not those of a man with nothing to hide. On the contrary, he has ducked and dived in an attempt to gloss over or conceal the truth from Parliament, the media and the people of South Africa. He later backtracked on this explanation, claiming that the payment was in fact a “donation” by Bosasa to his ANC presidential election campaign, but not explaining why it was laundered through several other accounts first. Like so many other important issues, Ramaphosa claims not to have known about the “donation”.
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