Leaked emails from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2017 African National Congress (ANC) presidential campaign reportedly reveal that he was consulted by his campaign managers about plans to approach several donors, despite his past denials that he was kept in the dark on the funding.
According to a News24 report on Saturday, the leaked emails in their possession – which were shared among Ramaphosa’s political rivals and on Twitter – were apparently verified and found to be accurate.
The online news publication said Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane had referenced these emails in her report into a R500,000 donation Ramaphosa received to his campaign from Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson on October 2017.
Mkhwebane found that Ramaphosa had deliberately misled Parliament over the donation and wanted the National Prosecuting Authority to probe allegations of money laundering against the president.
Last month, Ramaphosa took the Public Protector’s report on an urgent judicial review and described the report as “fundamentally and irretrievably flawed” in law.
However, Ramaphosa’s campaign managers reportedly believed that their communication may have been illegally intercepted.
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Source – EWN
