The president was responding to a parliamentary panel set as much as examine the theft of $4m in money from his recreation farm.
South Africa’s president has denied wrongdoing in testimony to a parliamentary panel analyzing 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 offered to the unbiased panel on Sunday, President Cyril Ramaphosa “categorically denies that he violated this oath in any means, 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 grievance 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 grievance alleged that Ramaphosa hid the theft from the authorities and as an alternative 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 social gathering heads to hotly contested inside polls in December.
Ramaphosa’s workplace stated he has at all times made it a degree “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, consists of an ex-chief justice, a former outstanding excessive courtroom decide, 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 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.