President Cyril Ramaphosa has declined to tell MPs how much his son Andile made from business dealings with controversial government service provider African Global Operations‚ previously known as Bosasa.
"The contract that he had for doing work for them outside the country is a matter that is now with the public protector and it's going to be dealt with in that way‚" said Ramaphosa."And if you care to know‚ there's really nothing to hide. The approach was that this is like company confidential information and I went on to say everything should be disclosed to the public protector‚ so everything has been disclosed to the public protector.
Ramaphosa‚ following a similar confrontation with Maimane in 2018‚ told the house that Andile had received money from Bosasa for consultancy services. He later changed his tune in a letter to National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete‚ saying the R500‚000 payment in question was actually a donation to his ANC presidential campaign‚ which he did not know at the time of responding to Maimane.
Turning to the issues at Eskom‚ Ramaphosa has been accused of having a conflict of interest stemming from the involvement of his immediate and extended families in the energy sector while he's championing the utility's turnaround. He dismissed suggestions by EFF MP Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi that his involvement in plans to rescue Eskom from financial ruin‚ while his brother Douglas Ramaphosa and billionaire brother-in law Patrice Motsepe stood to benefit from multi-billion-rand renewable energy contracts‚ amounted to a conflict of interests.
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