Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has made it clear that she regards President Cyril Ramaphosa as a liar whose election campaign funding for the 2017 ANC leadership race may have involved the laundering of more than R400m in donations.
Her findings are the most serious yet made against a sitting president, and come weeks after Mkhwebane accused Ramaphosa of “failing to uphold the constitution” by failing to take “appropriate legal action” against Pravin Gordhan — over the public enterprises minister’s authorisation of early retirement granted to then SA Revenue Service (Sars) deputy commissioner Ivan Pillay...
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