Robert McBride details ANC vote-buying scandal
In an explosive affidavit, he alleges that money from contracts at inflated prices went towards buying votes at the national conference in 2017
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) believes money from a contract irregularly awarded by the police at an inflated price was to be laundered for the purchasing of votes at the ANC’s national conference in December 2017. It was during the same conference that Cyril Ramaphosa overcame his political opponent Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma by about 200 votes to become the party’s president. The allegations were detailed in an explosive affidavit by Ipid boss Robert McBride in a matter between the police watchdog and the police’s national commissioner‚ General Khehla Sitole. The court battle‚ which has been going on for about a year‚ emanates from the police’s refusal to declassify documents needed by Ipid for the investigation of three high-profile corruption cases. The police believe the documents contain information that may compromise national security as well as the identities of intelligence operatives. But Ipid says the documents were classified illegally in order to ...
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