The president was responding to a parliamentary panel set as much as examine the theft of $4m in money from his sport farm.
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has denied wrongdoing in testimony to a parliamentary panel inspecting whether or not he ought to face impeachment over an alleged cover-up of a heist at his farmhouse, his workplace stated.
In written solutions supplied to the unbiased panel on Sunday, Ramaphosa “categorically denies that he violated this oath in any method, and denies that he's responsible of any of the allegations made in opposition to him,” the presidency stated on Monday.
The scandal erupted in June after South Africa’s former nationwide spy boss filed a criticism with the police alleging that robbers broke into Phala Phala, the president’s farm within the northeast of the nation, and stole $4m in money stashed in furnishings.
The criticism alleged that Ramaphosa hid the theft from the authorities and as a substitute organised for the robbers to be kidnapped and bribed into silence.
The scandal dangers derailing Ramaphosa’s bid for a second time period as president of the African Nationwide Congress (ANC) because the ruling occasion heads to hotly contested inner polls in December.
Ramaphosa’s workplace stated he has all the time made it some extent “to abide by his oath of workplace and set an instance in his respect for the structure”.
The unbiased panel, which was appointed by the Nationwide Meeting speaker final month, contains an ex-chief justice, a former outstanding excessive courtroom choose, and a lawyer.
It was established after a movement tabled by a legislator from The African Transformation Motion, one of many nation’s opposition events, and is ready to report its findings in mid-November.
Impeaching a president requires a two-thirds majority vote in South Africa’s Nationwide Meeting, the place Ramaphosa’s ANC instructions greater than two-thirds of the seats. However in June, he was heckled in parliament by opposition legislators.
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