LETTER: DA trying to find the truth
The party is using democratic institutions, such as the public protector, to find out whether the president misled parliament about a Bosasa donation
It is rather disingenuous of Karyn Maughan (DA forced to use Busisiwe Mkhwebane to shoot at the president, January 31) to suggest that referring a potentially serious violation by the president of his oath of office to the public protector is “deeply naïve” or constitutes “political point-scoring” on the DA’s part. Yes, we have little respect for compromised, ineffective Busisiwe Mkhwebane. But we have utmost respect for the office of the public protector. Additionally, the public protector is the legislatively mandated custodian of the executive ethics act and code and therefore the correct and singular channel for complaints laid in terms of the provisions of the act and the code. SA needs to know the truth about whether President Cyril Ramaphosa misled parliament in claiming that the R500,000 payment from Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson to his 2017 ANC presidential campaign was a “donation”. It is now evident that Bosasa has been bribing ANC officials for the better part of two decades. ...
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