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Vol 63 No 13

Published 23rd June 2022


South Africa

'Farmgate' rocks Ramaphosa

The 'cash-in-the-couch' scandal has damaged the President. It is being exploited to the full by his enemies, but it doesn't look enough to unseat him

On a wintry day on 13 June in Johannesburg Carl Niehaus, the chief spokesperson of the African National Congress's so-called Radical Economic Transformation (RET) faction, led a delegation into the Rosebank police station in Johannesburg, and laid an accusation of money-laundering, kidnapping and corruption against President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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