The EFF said Tuesday’s ruling of the North Gauteng High Court regarding the R500 000 donation to the CR17 campaign fund is bizarre.
As a result of that, the party said it will now take the legal fight to the Constitutional Court, the highest court of the land.
The CR17 campaign was created ahead of the 2017 ANC Nasrec conference while Ramaphosa was wrestling with Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma for the presidency of the ruling party. The campaign received a tainted R500 000 donation from Bosasa. Now the EFF says it is absurd for the court to rule that he did not benefit from the fund when it helped him to bag the presidency of the party that paved the way for him to be the country’s president.
Still voicing its irritation regarding the ruling, the EFF accused the court of handing down a ruling that stripped parliament of its dignity. It said the ruling will allow people to come before it to lie and get away with it.
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