President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday stayed on message – nothing would be said on the forex stolen from his Phala Phala farm because ‘due process’ must unfold as official investigations are under way. But that did not mean he wasn’t accounting, the ...
A giggle started the presidential reply after two days of bruising scenes reminiscent of the “Pay back the money” Nkandla saga that dogged his predecessor, former president Jacob Zuma, pretty much every time he took the podium, also to talk meandos and to giggle.
Some EFF MPs had to go to hospital, and charges were laid against National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and the “security rascals” for assault, EFF chief whip Floyd Shivambu told the House when it resumed after an hour’s suspension.wo parliamentary chamber protection services staff were assaulted in the process of the forceful removal of rowdy MPs from the chamber, and are receiving medical attention.
And that was also the line at the post-budget vote, given in every which way. But it all came down to the same: these questions – about the forex, the amounts, why it wasn’t reported, whether laws were broken – were all part of those processes he had told MPs about, and that could not be responded to while “the due process” unfolds.
“I’m a farmer. I’m in the cattle business. I’m in the game [farming] business. And through that business has been declared in Parliament and all over I buy and sell animals… This was a clear business transaction of selling animals…” Ramaphosa told the Limpopo ANC elective conference, having again denied wrongdoing.
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