The South African Parliament on Thursday (January 27th) demanded an explanation from President Cyril Ramaphosa over a leaked voice recording in which he allegedly suggested that public funds had been used during the ANC's internal election campaign in 2017. The Committee Parliament's permanent public accounts office announced in a statement that it had written to Cyril Ramaphosa asking him to respond
"in writing to allegations of misuse of public funds for political party use"
, he said in a statement. .
Cyril Ramaphosa has ten working days to answer questions.
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In this recording, widely picked up by the local media, we can hear the following sentence:
"Each of us knows that a good part of the money used in the campaigns
(...)
often comes from the resources of the State and public resources”
.
The committee will decide, after receiving the written response from Cyril Ramaphosa, whether the president should appear in person to answer further questions.
During a meeting on Tuesday, commission chairman Mkhuleko Hlengwa said Cyril Ramaphosa owed
“this commission, the government and the citizens an explanation (…) of what he knows and does not know. »
.
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The funds were said to have been used during the 2017 hotly contested internal campaign within the ANC which led to the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as leader of the ruling party to succeed Jacob Zuma.
