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President Cyril Ramaphosa’s sofa couch may have been stuffed with at least $580 000, but he has emerged largely unscathed from three investigations into the theft of that cash. But Karyn Maughan and Jan Gerber write there are 13 questions about this saga that won’t go away.
The now infamous Phala Phala break-in that saw at least $580 000 being stolen from a sofa in Cyril Ramaphosa’s farmhouse – and the bizarre and largely unexplained events that are alleged to have followed that burglary – may be the single biggest threat to the president’s self-projected image of himself as a leader with integrity.
While he has yet to face any real consequences as a result of the 9 February 2020 burglary at his farm in the Waterberg, the scandal has irredeemably damaged Ramaphosa’s credibility and his apparent inability to explain his conduct in it fully.
