'To stop corruption, reduce poverty and save SA from Zuma': Why people donated to CR17 campaign, according to Sygnia CEO
12 August 2019
Magda Wierzycka, Chief Executive Officer of Sygnia, a financial services company, said on Sunday that donors to President Cyril Ramaphosa's successful CR17 campaign for the ANC presidency had donated "...to stop corruption, reduce poverty and save SA from Zuma, Guptas etc".
The president and the CR17 campaign have been under increasing political and media scrutiny since Public Protector advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane released her report on the Bosasa donation saga, which also looked at the CR17 trust account, the donations received and how the money was moved around.
Drawing a conclusion on the donations and the exchanging of large sums of money, Mkhwebane alluded to a scenario of state capture.
"I wish to express my preliminary view that such a scenario, when looked at carefully, creates a situation of the risk of some sort of state capture by those donating these moneys to the campaign," Mkhwebane said.