EDITORIAL: Ramaphosa’s donors — ANC own goal
The ANC is now having to deal with numbskull conspiracy theories because it failed to embrace a regime of transparency around political donations two decades ago
15 August 2019 - 05:00
If the cliché is true that a country gets the best government that money can buy, then SA should be roaring ahead. The leaked e-mails, exposing the funders of Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2017 ANC presidency bid, show that there is no shortage of individuals eager to put their wallet on the line for better governance.
Among the donors, apparently, were Johnny Copelyn, CEO of HCI; Absa’s former CEO Maria Ramos; and the Oppenheimer family...
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