Phala Phala worker Froliana Joseph – a central figure in the burglary which saw as much as $4m stolen from the farm in 2020 – has distanced herself from any role in the crime and insists she is innocent.
Froliana Joseph, the worker at Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala lodge who allegedly found cash hidden in furniture.Phala Phala worker Froliana Joseph, a central figure in the theft which saw as much as $4m stolen from the farm in 2020, said she knows nothing of the burglary, nor the Namibians who allegedly made off with the cash.
News24 tracked Joseph down to an informal settlement called Vingerkraal on the border of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Limpopo game farm. In an exclusive interview this week, she claimed to have no connection to the group of Namibians named by former spy boss Arthur Fraser as those behind the heist. "I don’t know any of those guys… I have no idea about that story, I just saw in the newspaper that my name is there and that I stole the money, and I don’t know anything," she said. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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