PETER BRUCE: Ramaphosa is toxic now, thanks to his own lack of common sense
The farm burglary has thrown into sharp relief a sloppy and mildly chaotic background to an otherwise carefully scripted presidency
Nothing good can come of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s predicament in the wake of a report from three jurists saying that they believe there is prima facie evidence that he acted improperly, and offended the constitution, in his response to the theft of an as yet unknown amount of dollars (Ramaphosa says the amount was $580,000 but there’s no way of proving this) from his Limpopo game farm, Phala Phala.
Having considered resigning after the report emerged last Wednesday, he has since been persuaded to fight back. The report, it seems widely agreed, was poorly thought out and merely repeated the story as first alleged by a powerful political foe, former intelligence boss Arthur Fraser...
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