Phala Phala: ActionSA to file PAIA to get access to SARB whitewash
22 August 2023
ActionSA will, today, file an application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) to get access to the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) report into whether President Cyril Ramaphosa’s failure to disclose the foreign currency which was stolen at his Phala Phala farm in 2020 was indeed unlawful.
ActionSA contends that the report is most likely a whitewash and if indeed there is nothing to hide, the SARB Governor, Lesetja Kganyago, must honour our application in terms of PAIA so that the people of South Africa may satisfy themselves that this is not another cover-up.
Should our application be denied we will be left with no option but to approach the High Court seeking an order compelling the SARB to furnish us with the report. Furthermore, once we have had sight of the report and if our suspicions are correct, that the report is indeed a whitewash, we will take the report on judicial review.
How is it possible that $580,000 (or $4 million as Arthur Fraser has alleged) can be hidden away in a couch without our financial agencies being aware of it?