'It is up to the National Executive Committee' These are South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa's first comments since an official report on a scandal over money stolen from his farm. The ANC leaders are currently discussing the findings of the report.
Speaking outside the venue for the meeting, the president said that his fellow members of the National Working Committee had given him permission not to attend "so that they're free to express themselves as openly and as thoroughly as possible without any form of fear or favour".
"It is up to the National Executive Committee, which I am accountable to, to take whatever decision," Mr Ramaphosa told journalists. The panel's findings have been handed to parliament, which is set to examine them and decide whether or not to launch impeachment proceedings against the president. "It may be in the long-term interest and sustainability of our constitutional democracy, well beyond the Ramaphosa presidency, that such a clearly flawed report is challenged," he added.
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