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This was during their presentations Thursday in the Constitutional Court as the matter over the fundraising of the CR17 campaign continues.
Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane at the Johannesburg Constitutional Court on July 22, 2019. Image: Sethembiso Zulu / EWN
JOHANNESBURG – President Cyril Ramaphosa’s lawyers have painted a picture of how Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane wanted to find him responsible for crimes at any cost.
This was during their presentations Thursday in the Constitutional Court as the matter over the fundraising of the CR17 campaign continues.
The Public Protector and others have requested direct permission to appeal in court following Ramaphosa’s victory in Pretoria High Court.
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He had sought to review and set aside the Public Protector’s report that recommended that he be investigated, among others, for money laundering through his campaign for the presidency of the African National Congress.
Attorney Wim Trengove, who represented Ramaphosa, told the court that Mkhwebane made two very obvious mistakes that not even a junior attorney would have made.
It was then that he concluded that the president had deliberately misled Parliament about the donations he received during that time.
“A variety of versions of the same provision, which is a sign of recklessness, but the second is that she combined evidence of deliberate or inadvertent conduct.”
Advocate Thembeka Ngcukaitobi described Mkhwebane’s reasoning as an impressive fallacy.
He added that there was no factual analysis in the report, which did not acknowledge that raising funds for the ANC presidency in 2017 was an autonomous process from his position as vice president at the time.
“That finding is also persistent by our scholarly friends in their heads of discussion; they also referenced the fact that their money was paid through the campaign account of the Cyril Ramaphosa trust fund. So, that is the first basis that it was concluded that they were personal interest funds that belonged to the president ”.
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