ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday finally opened up about the burglary at his Phala Phala farm at the ANC national executive committee (NEC) meeting taking place in Nasrec.
Party leaders say this was the president's strategy to disarm rivals ahead of the tabling of the Phala Phala report at the ANC NEC meeting.ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa is seen at the ANC NEC sitting at NASREC.ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa's move to brief the ANC national executive committee about the Phala Phala scandal on Friday did not stop his rivals from calling on him to step aside from his position.
Senior party leaders, who asked not to be named, said Ramaphosa went as far as taking them into his confidence about his submission to the parliamentary panel probing whether he has a case to answer for on the matter. “I think they are confident that what [Arthur] Fraser said is all hearsay because he was confident when he spoke. But of course you can see he’s managing us. Now it becomes ‘but it’s his money, what law did he violate? Which law?’”
Dlamini-Zuma, S'dumo Dlamini, Tony Yengeni and Tandi Mahambehlala are said to have argued that Ramaphosa must step aside from his position as the president of both the country and the ANC. “Phala Phala has dented the image and integrity of the ANC severely. Second, he has made certain admissions in public about what happened,” said the NEC member.
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