🚨 The DA can today reveal that the US dollars hidden inside a couch on the Phala Phala farm of President Ramaphosa were not declared to SARS upon entering South Africa. The DA obtained this information directly from SARS following a PAIA application.

Towards the end of last year, Ramaphosa claimed that he had received US$580 000 from one Hazim Mustafa, a Sudanese national, as payment for cattle as part of a legitimate business transaction. In turn, Mustafa claimed in a media interview that he had complied with the requirement to declare the money to SARS officials at OR Tambo airport upon entering South Africa.

The response by SARS to the DA means that we now know that the President of South Africa had hidden dirty dollars, which had entered the country illegally, inside a couch on his game farm. It renders Ramaphosa’s claim that these funds were merely the proceeds of a business transaction impossible to believe, because legitimate business transactions are usually not hidden from SARS inside a couch. It now seems more likely than ever that Ramaphosa may have been in possession of these dirty dollars for a corrupt, illicit or criminal purpose.

The ANC last year abused its majority in the National Assembly to reject the Section 89 panel’s report that there exists prima facie evidence that Ramaphosa may have violated the Constitution.

The DA will introduce this new information from SARS as evidence that the panel’s report must stand. We will also submit this information to National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula as yet another reason why she must accede to the DA’s request for the urgent establishment of an ad hoc committee to fully expose the truth behind the President’s dirty dollars.

Read more here: https://www.da.org.za/2023/03/da-reveals-that-ramaphosas-dirty-dollars-were-not-declared-to-sars