DA wants ad hoc committee to investigate Ramaphosa's Bosasa donation
19 June 2019
An ad hoc committee must investigate President Cyril Ramaphosa's ties to scandal-ridden multi-services company Bosasa, DA leader Mmusi Maimane has said.
Addressing the media on Wednesday on the DA's expectations for Thursday's State of the Nation Address (SONA), Maimane announced that he wrote to Speaker Thandi Modise to ask for an ad hoc committee to process the pending Public Protector report on Bosasa.
Bosasa, these days known as African Global Operations (AGO), has been embroiled in a number of corruption scandals after its former COO Angelo Agrizzi opened a Pandora's box of allegations of bribery involving several senior ANC members in his testimony before the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture.
The Bosasa cloud has been over Ramaphosa's head since November last year, when he told the National Assembly, in an answer to a question from Maimane, that his son had received money from Bosasa for services rendered in terms of a consultancy contract. He told Parliament then that he had seen this contract.