Is Cyril Ramaphosa attempting to aid and abet the ANC’s Bonnie and Clyde bandits?
17 July 2020
Note to Editors: Please find attached English soundbite from Dr Leon Schreiber MP.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) can reveal that Public Service Minister Senzo Mchunu – acting on instructions from President Cyril Ramaphosa – has now established a second, parallel investigation into the ANC’s own Bonnie and Clyde, who have corrupted South Africa’s premier ethics watchdog, the Public Service Commission (PSC). This second investigation is ongoing despite the fact that, on 8 July 2020, advocate Smanga Sethene from the Office of the State Attorney already submitted a full report confirming that the Director-General (DG) of the PSC, Dr Dovhani Mamphiswana, had indeed illegally appointed his mistress, Boitumelo Mogwe, to the position of Chief Director for Ethics.
In accordance with the report’s recommendations, the DA on Wednesday laid criminal corruption charges against Mamphiswana and Mogwe. Advocate Sethene’s report further notes that the chairperson of the PSC had recommended to Ramaphosa as far back as 6 February that Mamphiswana’s should be suspended. Now that the allegations against the ANC’s Bonnie and Clyde have been substantiated, the report also charges the President to “consider acting against Dr Mamphiswana” – who reports directly to Ramaphosa.
On both occasions, Ramaphosa outright refused to act. He did not suspend Mamphiswana in February, and he has thus far refused to fire Mamphiswana on the basis of Sethene’s findings.