Judges and lawyers squared off against one another as the question of the source of President Cyril Ramaphosa's stolen dollars was debated in court yesterday.
The more than half-a-million dollars stolen from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala game farm was stuffed into a leather couch to conceal his paid side-hustle, the Western Cape High Court heard on Thursday.
Ramaphosa asked the court to set aside the Section 89 independent panel's report, which found in November 2022 that there was enough evidence for him to face four impeachment charges over the stolen money.
"If you're engaged in concealing money in a couch, you are doing so because you don't want to fall foul of the contravention of other paid work," Adv Kessler Perumalsamy, for the African Transformation Movement (ATM), one of the parties opposing the application, said in court.
"The source of the money is the key that shows that you have done other paid work."
