The leaking of confidential banking information on president Cyril Ramaphosa's CR17 campaign amounts to a violation of the right to privacy, the presidency said. RamaphosaLeaks
Pretoria - The leaking of confidential banking information on President Cyril Ramaphosa's CR17 campaign for the African National Congress presidency amounts to a violation of the constitutionally enshrined right to privacy, the presidency said on Saturday.
"The legal representatives of President Cyril Ramaphosa have requested the court that certain information contained in the record of the public protector’s investigation into allegations against the president not be made public. This request is pending a determination on whether the information was obtained lawfully and whether it was lawfully sourced in relation to the complaint under investigation," the presidency said.
Neither the president nor the campaign had done anything wrong, ethically or legally. It was a common and accepted practice in South Africa and across the world for parties and candidates to raise funding from donors for campaigns.
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