{"id":17627,"date":"2019-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=692f0e624aef402e8e8cf2e81372681d"},"modified":"2019-07-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T00:00:00","slug":"south-africa-pres-ramaphosa-to-challenge-flawed-graft-report-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/south-africa-pres-ramaphosa-to-challenge-flawed-graft-report-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Pres Ramaphosa to challenge ‘flawed’ graft report in court"},"content":{"rendered":"
PRETORIA: South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said he will challenge in court a watchdog body’s fundamentally and irretrievably flawed findings concerning a donation to his 2017 campaign to head the ruling party.<\/P>
After careful study I have concluded that the report is fundamentally and irretrievably flawed, Ramaphosa told reporters, adding that he has decided to seek an urgent judicial review of the findings concerning a controversial 500,000 rand donation.<\/P>
The country’s ombudswoman, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, said in a report on Friday that Ramaphosa deliberately misled the National Assembly when he responded to an opposition question in parliament last November.<\/P>
Ramaphosa initially told lawmakers that the payment was to his son Andile for consultancy work for Bosasa, now known as African Global Operations (AGO).<\/P>
But he later said it was a donation towards his campaign to become African National Congress party leader \ufffd a hard-fought battle in which he beat ex-president Jacob Zuma’s chosen candidate.<\/P>
He apologised saying he had been misinformed when he first answered the question.<\/P>
Despite the correction, Mkhwebane said Ramaphosa indeed misled parliament and that he should not have rushed to answer the question without all the facts.<\/P>
Ramaphosa said Mkhwebane’s report contains numerous factual inaccuracies of a material nature.<\/P>
The findings are wrong in law, are irrational and, in some instances, exceed the scope of the powers of the Public Protector, he said, referring to the ombudswoman.<\/P>
Ramaphosa said he wanted an expedited review process so that we do not keep the country in limbo about these matters.<\/P>
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Source: NAM News Network<\/P>
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