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Legal journalist Karyn Maughan joins John Maytham to discuss the 2020 Phala Phala farm burglary. She covers Arthur Fraser's money-laundering accusations against President Ramaphosa and his lawyer's dismissal of the claims as baseless. As the Constitutional Court reviews the case, Maughan offers insights on its potential impact on Ramaphosa's Presidency.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Die MK-party se parlementêre leier, John Hlophe, het die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag se besluit gekritiseer om niemand in die Phala Phala-aangeleentheid te vervolg nie. Die voormalige spioenbaas Arthur Fraser het 'n saak teen president Cyril Ramaphosa en die voormalige hoof van sy presidensiële beskermingseenheid, Wally Rhoode, geopen. Dit was oor die beweerde toesmeerdery van die diefstal van buitelandse valuta op die president se Limpopo-wildplaas in 2020. Hlophe sê die NVG se besluit bewys dat geregtigheid in Suid-Afrika net vir die elite beskore is:

The National Prosecuting Authority, NPA has declined to prosecute anyone in relation to the Phala Phala farm case, involving President Cyril Ramaphosa and Major General Wally Roode. Director of Public Prosecutions Ivy Thenga made the decision after assessing evidence from the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, following a complaint by Arthur Fraser alleging money laundering and corruption. The case centered on a theft of around 580,000 dollars at Ramaphosa's Phala Phala Farm in Limpopo. Fraser's complaint accused Ramaphosa and Roode of wrongdoing, but Thenga found insufficient grounds for prosecution. For reaction Elvis Presslin spoke to Zama Ntshona Spokesperson of the African Transformation Movement, ATM

The EFF says confirmation by Fikile Mbalula that President Cyril Ramaphosa was begged by the ANC not to resign is a sign he's lost interest in leading the country. Mbalula on Sunday told supporters in Barberton, Mpumalanga, that Ramaphosa was at one point ready to resign but the party stopped him.  “He was about to resign. We stopped him and told him we would relieve him when we want.” Ramaphosa's leadership was questioned after the 2020 theft of foreign currency at his game farm in Limpopo which came to light in 2022. On June 1 2022, former State Security Agency (SSA) director-general Arthur Fraser lodged a criminal complaint against Ramaphosa and accused him of concealing the crime. Charges included defeating the ends of justice, kidnapping the suspects, interrogating them at the farm and then bribing them. Opposition parties grabbed the opportunity to attack the president. The ATM submitted a motion in parliament for the National Assembly to initiate an inquiry into Ramaphosa on the grounds of alleged violation of the constitution or the law, and misconduct. Three months later a panel of three legal experts concluded Ramaphosa had a prima facie case to answer. With the focus on the Union Buildings, Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said: “President Ramaphosa is not resigning based on a flawed report, [nor] is he stepping aside.” As part of the build-up to the ANC's 112th anniversary celebrations, Mbalula last Sunday told supporters in Mpumalanga the party had begged Ramaphosa to stay. In February last year EFF leader Julius Malema in a press conference said the president had already resigned and he was informed by a person who wrote the president's speech: “If we were to conduct raid now in his offices or homes we are going to find a resignation letter. You have a president who's there by body but the soul is gone.”

The State Security Agency has slammed former Inspector-General of Intelligence Dr Setlhomamaru Dintwe's demand for a R6.1-million payout as built on misrepresentation - and has gone to court to block it. Dintwe - whose security clearance was pulled by then-spy boss Arthur Fraser when the intelligence watchdog chief started investigating him for alleged abuses in 2018 - is suing President Cyril Ramaphosa, the minister in the presidency and the SSA for more than R6.1 million he claims is still due to him. In papers filed at the Johannesburg Labour Court, Dintwe's lawyers accuse the minister in the presidency and the SSA of ignoring his demands that he be paid the full gratuity he was owed once his service ended (which he says the SSA miscalculated), outstanding salary amounts and nearly half a million rand for the 124 days of leave he says he never took. The SSA and minister in the presidency are, however, adamant the contract erratum Dintwe is relying on to make his demands is constitutionally invalid and not enforceable because it was based on misrepresentation by the former IGI - and have now launched their own Labour Court litigation to obtain a ruling that sets it aside. Recently resigned SSA Director-General Thembisile Majola told the Labour Court this erratum - which was signed by then-minister in the presidency Mondli Gungubele and the chairperson of Parliament's Standing Committee on Intelligence Jerome Maake two days after Dintwe's term ended - had inflated the IGI's remuneration by 52% or R1.9-million. She said in an affidavit filed two weeks before she left office: At no stage were the [SSA] and the [SSA Director-General] consulted in relation to the amendment of the employment conditions in relation to the remuneration and gratification of the [IGI] prior to the signing of the erratum. Majola further accuses Dintwe of knowing he was acting against the prescripts of the Constitution and the law when he sought the change in his contract and made the misrepresentation to Gungubele and Maake she said he used to justify it. The former IGI "cannot claim to be an innocent part of the conclusion of the erratum," she added. Dintwe was appointed by President Ramaphosa and was tasked with investigating alleged wrongdoing by state intelligence. He began his five-year term as the IGI on 15 March 2017 and ended it on 15 March 2022. Under the conditions of his employment, Dintwe was supposed to receive a salary package that is equivalent to that of the Public Protector (who receives the same salary as a Supreme Court of Appeal judge). The IGI's benefits include a "non-taxable service allowance of R73 435" a year, a "non-taxable entertainment allowance of R45 000" a year, use of a state vehicle for private use (up to 75 000km), paid travel and accommodation for his spouse, "unlimited hotel accommodation similar to that of a deputy minister" and an "operational catering allowance". Dintwe's contract also reveals, in addition to unlimited business class local and international flights, he was given 24 business class tickets for domestic travel every year, which he was able to give to whomever he chose. This benefit is not given to the Public Protector, and the SSA and IGI has refused to comment on its purpose, on the basis the dispute over Dintwe's remuneration is sub judice. Dintwe's entitlement to these airline tickets is not disputed in this litigation, however. Like the Public Protector, the IGI is entitled to receive a gratuity at the end of the term. That gratuity is calculated according to a specific formula and - as in the case of the Public Protector - typically runs into several million rand. According to Dintwe, the terms according to which his gratuity was calculated incorrectly recorded his five-year term of office as being seven years, the same as the Public Protector. As a result, he said, Gungubele and Maake signed an erratum (effectively an addendum to his employment contract) on 17 March 2022, two days after his ...

Thembisile Majola served just 20 months of her three-year contract as the director-general of the State Security Agency (SSA). Before taking over in March 2022, the agency had been without a permanent head since Arthur Fraser's departure in 2018. Announcing Majol's appointment last year, President Cyril Ramaphosa said it was "an important part of government's work to stabilise the country's intelligence services". In a statement announcing Majola's resignation on Wednesday, the parties had separated "by mutual consent with the president", effective from 30 November 2023. "The president has expressed his appreciation to ambassador Majola for her contribution to the reform and rebuilding of the State Security Agency. President Ramaphosa wishes ambassador Majola well in all her future endeavours," the statement said. When announcing Majola's appointment, Ramaphosa said: "Her appointment is expected to give greater impetus to the implementation of the report of the SSA high-level review panel and the recommendations of the expert panel into the July 2021 unrest." The panel found that: "The police failed to stop the rioting and looting in July 2021. The reasons for this failure are complex and sometimes not of their making. In some instances, they did not get any intelligence upon which to plan operations." In September, News24 reported that, more than two years after violent unrest swept through KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in the aftermath of former president Jacob Zuma's incarceration for contempt of court, the Hawks had not secured a single conviction. Majola resigned as deputy minister of energy in 2018 citing family reasons. Before serving in the executive, she held ambassadorships in Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde, Gambia and Guinea Bissau. Following her appointment to the SSA, News24 reported that government insiders said Majola had long been on Ramaphosa's radar due to the respect she commanded in security circles as a result of her history serving the African National Congress in exile. Her resignation is a blow to an institution that has been in disarray since Zuma's presidency. Last year, News24 reported that organised criminal networks captured and paralysed the SSA by setting up parallel intelligence structures within the agency and looting upwards of R1.5-billion between 2008 and 2018 to serve Zuma's political interests.

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has released its report into the Phala Phala- following an investigation which was launched on the back of the allegations by Former intelligence boss, Arthur Fraser. The Reserve Bank says it has found that was no perfected transaction and cannot conclude that there was any contravention of the Exchange Control Regulations (the applicable Regulation is Regulation 6(1)) by a trust that operates President, Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala game farm, Ntaba Nyoni Estates. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Khaya Sithole who is an accountant, academic and activist and Democratic Alliance's Federal Finance Chairperson and Shadow Minster of Finance, Dr Dion George   

Former president Jacob Zuma has extended his trip to Moscow as the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) decides whether he should return to prison. News24 understands from two sources who have knowledge of Zuma's trip that he was meant to return on Tuesday, but that he extended the trip. He is seeking medical treatment in the Russian capital, although the details of his illness are unknown. The DCS said on Wednesday that the department was yet to decide on Zuma's fate. Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi confirmed that Zuma had not returned from Moscow. "I don't know when he will be coming back," he said. Manyi, who is also an Economic Freedom Fighters member of Parliament, said he did not know what Zuma's health condition was. A source said Zuma planned to return next Wednesday, but Manyi said he could not confirm when the former head of State would return. Last Thursday, the Constitutional Court dismissed the Department of Correctional Services' application for leave to appeal a Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) ruling that Zuma should return to prison. The apex court found the department's appeal "bears no reasonable prospect of success" and dismissed the application with costs. Zuma was jailed in July 2021 after he was sentenced to 15 months for contempt of the Constitutional Court after he refused to obey an order to appear before the Zondo Commission. However, hardly two months later, he was released on medical parole after then national commissioner of correctional services, Arthur Fraser, overruled the Medical Parole Advisory Board's (MPAB) recommendation that the former president did not qualify. The Democratic Alliance, AfriForum and Helen Suzman Foundation asked the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to review Fraser's decision and set it aside, which it did. Zuma and the DCS then appealed, but the SCA upheld the High Court's decision. The SCA found Zuma "has not finished serving his sentence". It said: "He must return to the Estcourt Correctional Centre to do so. Whether the time spent by Mr Zuma on unlawfully granted medical parole should be taken into account in determining the remaining period of his incarceration, is not a matter for this court to decide." "It is a matter to be considered by the commissioner (Makgothi Thobakgale). If he is empowered by law to do so, the commissioner might take that period into account in determining any application or grounds for release." After the Constitutional Court's decision last week, the SCA's ruling stands.

African National Congress (ANC) first deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane says the party will not lobby the government to pardon former president Jacob Zuma. This followed a recent Constitutional Court decision that could see the former president return to jail. The apex court dismissed an appeal of a Supreme Court of Appeal ruling that Zuma's release on parole was unlawful. It is now up to correctional services commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale to decide if Zuma must return to jail. The former president is currently in Russia seeking medical treatment. Asked whether the ANC would call for the pardoning of the former president, Mokonyane said: "That would be called interference. "The most important thing is that we think there has to be objectivity in handling this matter, and the relevant authorities have that task of reflecting on it and ensuring that it is handled in a manner that will not create unnecessary perceptions going forward." Zuma was jailed in 2021 and was expected to serve a 15-month sentence for defying a subpoena to give evidence at the Zondo Commission. Former correctional services commissioner Arthur Fraser released the former president on medical parole in a decision that has been ruled unlawful. While the ANC will not lobby for a pardon for Zuma, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has indicated it would ask President Cyril Ramaphosa to pardon him should he be sent back to jail. "If they say he must go to [jail], I will go to him and argue my case with him that the guy is sick. "The guy is old; his struggle credentials, his service to the public office and the fact that he served time in prison and the fact that parole on its own does not mean you are free; you continue to serve even from outside. "It is enough for you to give him a presidential pardon to avoid the possibility of instability which was experienced in KZN," EFF leader Julius Malema said on Friday. On coalition governments following next year's general elections, Mokonyane neither rejected the Democratic Alliance nor EFF as potential partners should no party receive outright majorities in provincial legislatures or the National Assembly. She said the ANC's national executive committee (NEC) had decided to establish regulations that would govern how to work in coalitions in the future and those regulations must clearly state the minimum programmes. "We will work with everyone and anyone who agrees with us on those minimum programmes. So, the NEC [has] yet to deliberate and do an assessment of the current coalitions. Gauteng [has] yet to give us a report as well," she added. Meanwhile, former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils warned Ramaphosa he should not allow South Africa to be a "pawn" to imperialist nations. Kasrils said Western nations were warmongers, referring to Russia's war with Ukraine, calling Ukraine NATO's "proxy". "If we don't stand foursquare together, those imperialists - comrade president [Ramaphosa], you will know it more than us - will want to browbeat us into being their pawns," he added.

Former president Jacob Zuma is currently unwell and seeking medical assistance in Moscow, Russia, News24 has confirmed. This is as the Constitutional Court on Thursday dismissed the Department of Correctional Services' application for leave to appeal a Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) ruling that he must go back to prison. Two sources with direct knowledge of Zuma's trip said the former president had left on Monday for Moscow, where he was receiving medical treatment. He flew commercially to Russia, accompanied by six VIP protectors paid for by the state. Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi confirmed to News24 that the former president was in Moscow and was seeking medical assistance. "He went for medical check ups. He has not been feeling well," Manyi said. He is expected to return to South Africa next week. Zuma has long relied on the Russian healthcare system, ever since he was allegedly poisoned in 2014. In dismissing the application for leave to appeal Zuma's medical parole, the Constitutional Court said an appeal had "no reasonable prospects of success". This means the November judgment of the SCA, which said: "Mr Zuma, in law, has not finished serving his sentence. He must return to the Estcourt Correctional Centre to do so," stands. Zuma was jailed in July 2021 for 15 months for contempt of the Constitutional Court after he refused to obey an order to appear before the Zondo Commission. However, hardly two months later, he was released on medical parole after the then-national commissioner of correctional services, Arthur Fraser, overruled the Medical Parole Advisory Board's (MPAB) recommendation that the former president did not qualify for it. The Democratic Alliance, AfriForum and Helen Suzman Foundation asked the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to review Fraser's decision and set it aside. Judge Elias Matojane found the decision unlawful. Manyi said the foundation would not comment on the Constitutional Court decision. "It was only DCS that appealed the SCA judgement, and H.E President Zuma only applied for leave to intervene as an interested party only if the appeal was to take place," he said.

Guest: Daily Maverick Associate Editor Ferial Haffajee joins Amy to discuss the fact that the impeachment panel inquiry into whether President Cyril Ramaphosa violated his oath of office has laid into former spy boss Arthur Fraser.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Forensic investigator Paul O'Sullivan says the entire Phala Phala scandal threatening SA's President is a setup engineered by disgraced former cabinet minister Arthur Fraser, his ‘sleeper' inside the Ramaphosa household and ‘flexible' journalists. He says there is no case for Ramaphosa to answer as Fraser's affidavit, which sparked the controversy, is long on hearsay and short on fact. O'Sullivan urges Ramaphosa to display backbone and reject calls for his departure, saying he must not abandon the country in its hour of need. To resign now, the Forensics for Justice founder adds, would be an admission of guilt. He spoke to Alec Hogg of BizNews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has ordered the former president to return to prison. This comes after the Democratic Alliance (DA), Helen Suzman Foundation and AfriForum applied to the Court of Appeal to review Zuma's medical parole. Zuma had appealed the high court's ruling in December last year, which set aside former Correctional Services national commissioner Arthur Fraser's decision to grant him medical parole. On Monday, the Appeal (SCA) dismissed with costs former President Jacob Zuma's appeal against the setting aside his medical parole by the Pretoria High Court. According to Christopher Fisher, legal researcher of the Helen Suzman Foundation, who spoke with radio Islam international, the decision sends a powerfully affirmative message to South African officials who disobey the law.

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has upheld a decision of the High Court in Pretoria that Jacob Zuma's release on medical parole by former Correctional Services commissioner Arthur Fraser was illegal, invalid and unconstitutional. Zuma was jailed for contempt for 15 months for refusing to testify before the Zondo Commission. But he was released on medical parole after just two months. The Medical Parole Advisory Board did not find Zuma was permanently incapacitated nor was he suffering from a terminal illness, one of which must be present for placement on medical parole. Fraser, instead, overruled the panel of medical experts and approved Zuma's release. The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) was a respondent in the appeal filed by Fraser and Zuma with the SCA. HSF director Nicole Fritz explained to BizNews correspondent Michael Appel the significance of the judgment, as well as what this spells for Zuma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Institute for Race Relations (IRR) believes the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment means Jacob Zuma must go back to prison. This after the SCA upheld a decision of the High Court in Pretoria that Zuma's release on medical parole by former Correctional Services commissioner Arthur Fraser was illegal, invalid and unconstitutional. Zuma was jailed for contempt for 15 months for refusing to testify before the Zondo Commission. But he was released on medical parole after just two months. The Medical Parole Advisory Board did not find Zuma was permanently incapacitated nor was he suffering from a terminal illness, one of which must be present for placement on medical parole. Fraser, instead, overruled the panel of medical experts and approved Zuma's release. The IRR was an amicus curiae (friend of the court) in the matter. IRR head of campaigns Gabriel Crouse joined BizNews correspondent Michael Appel for an expansive discussion on what the judgment means for the embattled former president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Crime Time, we spoke about surfacing allegations regarding Arthur Fraser and Paul O'Sullivan in the Phala Phala saga and we were joined by Vuyo Zungula, President of ATM.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Cyril Ramaphosa sê hy het 'n goeie ontmoeting met die ANC-integriteitskommissie oor die Phala Phala-saak gehad. Die president het aan die party se etiese komitee verslag gedoen oor die diefstal in 2020 op sy plaas in Limpopo waar na bewering miljoene in buitelandse geldeenhede gesteel is. Die gewese hoof van Staatsekerheid, Arthur Fraser, het aangevoer die president was deel van 'n plan om die diefstal toe te smeer deur die oortreders om te koop. Ramaphosa sê hy wag nog op die kommissie se verslag:

Die EFF sê daar is 'n groeiende neiging in Suid-Afrika om die regbank en regsmiddele te gebruik om korrupsie toe te smeer. Politieke partye versoek die adjunk-Openbare Beskermer, Kholeka Gcaleka, om haar verslag oor die sage van President Cyril Ramaphosa se plaas, Phala Phala, vry te stel. Die voormalige spioenbaas, Arthur Fraser, het beweer Ramaphosa het moontlik in 2020 die diefstal van buitelandse valuta op sy plaas in Limpopo verbloem. Die nasionale woordvoerder van die EFF, Sinawo Tambo, sê die howe word om die verkeerde redes ingespan:

Die Suid-Afrikaanse Reserwebank het President Cyril Ramaphosa tot volgende Donderdag tyd gegee om inligting te verskaf oor die buitelandse valuta wat op sy Phala Phala-plaas in Limpopo gesteel is sodat die voorval deeglik ondersoek kan word. Die bank se departement vir finansiële toesig ondersoek bewerings deur die voormalige hoof van die Staatsveiligheidsagentskap, Arthur Fraser, dat buitelandse geld wat nie verklaar is nie, in 'n meubelstuk op die plaas gevind is. Ramaphosa het vroeër gesê die kontant wat op sy plaas gesteel is, was die opbrengs uit die verkoop van diere. Dawie Klopper 'n ekonoom in die buurland het met Kosmos 94.1 Nuus oor moontlike stappe wat die bank teen Ramaphosa kan neem.

He left office more than four years ago but former president Jacob Zuma has remained a feature in SA's political and public life. This week the Pietermaritzburg high court gave VBS Mutual Bank permission to seize Zuma's assets to repay a loan of nearly R7m relating to the refurbishment of his Nkandla homestead.This follows his pending corruption trial and a separate court case on whether he should return to prison after being controversially released on parole by former prisons boss and supporter Arthur Fraser. This week on Sunday Times Politics Weekly, we discuss the “Zuma phenomenon”. Is it possible or even advisable to hold Zuma accountable before court? How has Zuma managed to have so much influence in SA? Should he face rearrest, will SA experience another 2021 July unrest scenario? These are some topics discussed by host Mike Siluma and his panel — Sunday Times political writer Mawande AmaShabalala and independent political analyst Prince Mashele.

He left office more than four years ago but former president Jacob Zuma has remained a feature in SA's political and public life. This week the Pietermaritzburg high court gave VBS Mutual Bank permission to seize Zuma's assets to repay a loan of nearly R7m relating to the refurbishment of his Nkandla homestead.This follows his pending corruption trial and a separate court case on whether he should return to prison after being controversially released on parole by former prisons boss and supporter Arthur Fraser. This week on Sunday Times Politics Weekly, we discuss the “Zuma phenomenon”. Is it possible or even advisable to hold Zuma accountable before court? How has Zuma managed to have so much influence in SA? Should he face rearrest, will SA experience another 2021 July unrest scenario? These are some topics discussed by host Mike Siluma and his panel — Sunday Times political writer Mawande AmaShabalala and independent political analyst Prince Mashele.

Arthur Fraser is in the headlines a lot these days - for two reasons specifically - he's the former spy boss who granted former President Jacob Zuma his medical parole, and also the man who laid charges against Cyril Ramaphosa over the February 2020 Phala Phala theft saga. The fifth instalment of the Zondo Report makes damning findings against Fraser and a dubious cast of characters in the intelligence world. Michael Appel takes a look at the man instrumental in shaping South Africa from the shadows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's Daily Friend Show with Sholan Booysen, Sara Gon and Nicholas Lorimer. The team chats about the strange allegations made by Malema with regards to Arthur Fraser and Thabo Mbeki. They also discuss a Northern Cape hospital sending linen 800 km to be washed, the DA's new chief whip and Turkey and Israel resuming normal relations. Subscribe on Google Podcasts · Subscribe on Apple Podcasts · Subscribe on Spotify

Die DA in Suid-Afrika doen 'n beroep op die betrokke wetstoepassingsagentskappe om voorkeur te gee aan die verhaling van 1,2 miljard Suid-Afrikaanse rand by mense wat staatskaping moontlik gemaak en gefasiliteer het. 'n Woordvoerder van die party, Glynnis Breytenbach, sê hierdie persone het óf finansiële voordele ontvang omdat hulle die toekenning van staatskontrakte aan Gupta-ondernemings gefasiliteer het, óf kontrakte gekry vir dienslewering wat nooit uitgevoer is nie. Sy sê die ANC-regering moet seker maak korrupte kaders en makkers soos Ace Magashule, Arthur Fraser en Mosebenzi Zwane betaal die geld terug:

Gabriel and Nick chat about the IRR's legal arguments for why Jacob Zuma should not have been released from jail at the direction of Arthur Fraser and what Zuma can do to turn around his reputation and the country. Recommendations: Nick: Heilung https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVbc_Fwbt50 Gabriel: Sibelius Theme and Variations for Solo Cello (1887) https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ-BIEutAWc&feature=share

Gabriel and Nick chat about the IRR's legal arguments for why Jacob Zuma should not have been released from jail at the direction of Arthur Fraser and what Zuma can do to turn around his reputation and the country. Recommendations: Nick: Heilung https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVbc_Fwbt50 Gabriel: Sibelius Theme and Variations for Solo Cello (1887) https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ-BIEutAWc&feature=share

A declassified report from within the belly of the State Security Agency (SSA) details how agents infiltrated several civil society organisations in South Africa posing as activists. This was during 2016/17 when former President Jacob Zuma was increasingly besieged with accusations of state capture due to the proximity of himself and his family to the Guptas. The so-called Boast Report was authored by a member of the SSA's special operations unit for then director general of the agency, Arthur Fraser. In this interview with BizNews' Michael Appel, interim programme director of Greenpeace Africa, Melita Steele, explains how the NGO came to find out it was being spied on and what recourse it now seeks. Steele also highlights that the recommendations of the high level review panel - chaired by Dr Sydney Mufamadi - established in June 2018 by President Ramaphosa to investigate the actions of the SSA, are yet to be fully implemented. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Reporter Jeff Wicks to discuss the News24 investigation that tracked down the Phala Phala worker Froliana Joseph. She claimed to have no connection to the group of Namibians named by former spy boss Arthur Fraser as those behind the heist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Die Congress of the People in Suid-AFrika sê hy gaan vandag by die Brooklyn-polisiekantoor in Pretoria 'n strafregtelike klag indien teen die gewese spioenbaas, Arthur Fraser. Die party se woordvoerder, Dennis Bloem, sê die klag hou verband met onthullings in die staatskapingsverslag. Hy sê Fraser, die oudminister van Staatsveiligheid David Mahlobo, en gewese ambassadeur Thulani Dlomo word betrek by die onttrekking, hantering en verspreiding van groot bedrae geld van die Staatsveiligheidsagentskap:

Guest: Dennis Bloem | Former Chairperson at Parliament'S Portfolio Committee On Correctional Services See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The final state capture report has made some damning findings against former president Jacob Zuma and former spy boss Arthur Fraser.

It's been an unusually tumultuous time in South Africa - even by our standards - after former spyboss Arthur Fraser spilled the beans on Cyril's couch. That sort of red tomatoey mess doesn't easily come out of upholstery - but if Fraser's affidavit to police is to be believed - something that does wash out quite easily is anywhere between $4m and $8m. The megaphone for the ANC's Radical Economic Transformation (RET) faction - Carl Niehaus - wants Ramaphosa to be apprehended through a citizen's arrest and taken to the "closet police station".

Award-winning journalist, television host, political commentator, and newspaper columnist Justice Justice Malala questions why President Cyril Ramaphosa will not tell us the whole truth about the theft at his Phala Phala game farm, and whether his refusal to answer these questions will drown out any of the report's findings. He goes on to discuss Arthur Fraser's motivations and the ANC's toxic factional battles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Retired head of Asset Forfeiture Unit at National Prosecuting Authority Willie Hofmeyr is joining Clement Manyathela where they are discussing if evidence filed by former Spy Boss Arthur Fraser was obtained illegally or not. They go deep exploring on what happens when information is obtained illegally and used to open a case against someone. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Die leier van die EFF in Suid-Afrika, Julius Malema, sê hulle sal nie ophou voor President Cyril Ramaphosa rekenskap gee van die strafregtelike klagte wat die gewese spioenasiehoof, Arthur Fraser, teen hom ingedien het nie. Dit hou verband met ‘n rooftog op Ramaphosa se plaas, Phala Phala, in Limpopo, en Fraser beskuldig hom van geldwassery. Malema sê Ramaphosa het geen respek vir Suid-Afrikaners nie:

Die voormalige spioenbaas van Suid-Afrika, Arthur Fraser, het bevestig hy help die Valke met hulle ondersoek na die bewerings wat hy teen President Cyril Ramaphosa gemaak het. Fraser sê in 'n verklaring hy het nog inligting aan die Valke verskaf en besonderhede wat hulle ondersoek sal verhaas. Fraser het twee weke gelewe 'n strafregtlike klag teen die president gelê en beweer Ramaphosa het inligting oor 'n diefstal wat in 2020 by sy Phala Phala plaas in Limpopo plaasgevind het, van owerhede weerhou. Dit is ook die kwessie plaaslik en daar is berigte dat die gedoente toegesmeer is met hulp van President Hage Geingob. Die adjunkleier van die LPM-party Henny Seibeb sê die aangeleentheid moet oopgevlek word.

Former spy boss Arthur Fraser has met with the Hawks today as part of an investigation into his allegations against the President.

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It's been frantic week in the political economy with the dirty tricks bag being emptied against a reforming president clamping down on corruption. Shortly after the arrest of former Transnet CEO Siyabonga Gama, disgraced former spy boss Arthur Fraser who was so central to former president Zuma's State Capture network as outlined by journalist Jacques Pouw in President's keepers, played the RET factions hand with curious looking charges of covering up theft against President Cyril Ramaphosa, which he has strongly denied while serious questions remain. Then this week the arrest of two of the Gupta brothers in Dubai. The NPA now has 60 days within which to apply for extradition and for all the unanswered questions seems seriously caught on the back foot here. And last night, the president played his own gambit, suspending public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane with immediate effect. The move came a day before judgment in her case today seeking to block him from doing so. It's a high stakes game that the ANC is playing with the future of the country and delicate balance of the economy which is starting to show some encouraging pockets of green shoots as reform in energy starts to take hold as evidenced by the registration of 16 IPPs under the 100MW self gen exemption this week. And with first quarter GDP growth surprising markedly but subsequent high frequency data in mining, manufacturing and confidence disappointing. Lots to discuss with Warwick Lucas Head of Galileo Securities; Raymond Parsons, professor in the School of Business and Governance at Northwest University & Isaah Mhlanga, Chief Economist at Alex Forbes.

I was joined by two of your favourite guests of mine on this podcast, Lance Claasen (who is now full-time back in radio as GM of Rise FM) & Thabo Shole-Mashao (former journalist with massive news experience, and now working as a sought after strategist in public relations, media management and training, etc). We debated whether or not the claims by former spy boss Arthur Fraser that president Cyril Ramaphosa is implicated in criminality, should be taken seriously. Or, is this a story that should not get the kind of attention we are giving it (ourselves included in the media)? It was an energetic exchange of agreements and disagreements, but you can make up your own mind about these issues, hopefully finding the framing of them, useful if not interesting also. Enjoy! 

Guest: Expert Legal Journalist Karyn Maughan joins John to explain that The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) says there's "no evidence" that Jacob Zuma illegally influenced its former national commissioner, Arthur Fraser, into granting the former president medical parole, and insists the release was lawful. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former spy boss Arthur Fraser, who's also the man who freed former President Jacob Zuma on medical parole when he was Correctional Services head, this week laid a criminal complaint against President Cyril Ramaphosa. Fraser claims he has the evidence to prove that Ramaphosa concealed the February 2020 theft of +-$4m (R62m) in cash by criminals working in concert with his domestic helper at his farm in Limpopo. The charges Fraser wants investigated are vast and serious. They include defeating the ends of justice, kidnapping of suspects, their interrogation on Ramaphosa's property, and bribery. The Presidency has confirmed the robbery saying the proceeds came from “the sale of game” but wouldn't confirm the amount stolen, only saying Fraser's suggested amount is "hugely inflated". The President's spokesperson Vincent Magwenya says Ramaphosa stands ready to cooperate with any law enforcement investigation. BizNews editor Michael Appel speaks to analyst at the Institute for Global Dialogue, Sanusha Naidu, about Fraser's possible motives for laying these charges against Ramaphosa now, as well as the optics surrounding this saga. The move comes just six months before Ramaphosa seeks re-election at the ANC's elective conference in December. Critically, the State Capture Inquiry will also soon be releasing its final report into, among other workstreams, the State Security Agency that Fraser presided over under a cloud of corruption.

Pieter du Toit, assistant editor of In-depth News at News24 analysis president Cyril Ramaphosa's admission to a robbery at his farm. Jan Fourie, manager of South Africa & vice president of project development in Sub-Saharan Africa at Scatec Solar on the signing of contracts for ‘emergency' power procurement programme in Northen Cape. In personal finance, Warren Ingram personal financial advisor and executive director at Galileo Capital advises on how you can prepare yourself for buying a car. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Ferial Haffajee | Associate Editor  at Daily Maverick See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week the former head of the State Security Agency Arthur Fraser dropped what looked like a political bombshell – laying criminal charges against President Cyril Ramaphosa.  According to a statement released by Fraser, he has pressed criminal charges against President Ramaphosa which include defeating the ends of justice, torture, kidnapping and bribery. However, the presidency quickly rebutted these claims saying that while a robbery did take place at his farm in Limpopo on or around February 9 2020 in which proceeds from the sale of game were stolen, Ramaphosa rejects claims that he was involved in any criminal conduct over the theft of millions of dollars at his farm in 2020. Ramaphosa holds that he was attending an AU summit in Addis Ababa at the time the incident occurred. He claims that the allegations are simply a disinformation campaign.  On this week's episodes of the Sunday Times Politics Weekly, we consider who Arthur Fraser is in our political landscape, why he might make these claims now, who might gain from a 'disinformation campaign', why Ramaphosa might keep such a large amount of cash on a farm and the political implications for SA should Ramaphosa be made to step aside. J

This week the former head of the State Security Agency Arthur Fraser dropped what looked like a political bombshell – laying criminal charges against President Cyril Ramaphosa.  According to a statement released by Fraser, he has pressed criminal charges against President Ramaphosa which include defeating the ends of justice, torture, kidnapping and bribery. However, the presidency quickly rebutted these claims saying that while a robbery did take place at his farm in Limpopo on or around February 9 2020 in which proceeds from the sale of game were stolen, Ramaphosa rejects claims that he was involved in any criminal conduct over the theft of millions of dollars at his farm in 2020. Ramaphosa holds that he was attending an AU summit in Addis Ababa at the time the incident occurred. He claims that the allegations are simply a disinformation campaign.  On this week's episodes of the Sunday Times Politics Weekly, we consider who Arthur Fraser is in our political landscape, why he might make these claims now, who might gain from a 'disinformation campaign', why Ramaphosa might keep such a large amount of cash on a farm and the political implications for SA should Ramaphosa be made to step aside. J

Guest: Pieter du Toit | Assistant Editor of In-depth News at News24  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Die polisie bevestig dat die voormalige spioenbaas, Arthur Fraser, misdaadklagtes teen president Cyril Ramaphosa gelê het. Die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag maak vordering met ondersoeke na apartheidsmisdade. 'n Beskuldigende vinger word onder meer na die polisie gewys omdat duisende misdadigers vry rondloop.

Guest: Benedict Phiri | MD at IusPrudentia Special Counsel See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former president Jacob Zuma's medical parole was taken away today by the Johannesburg High Court. Arthur Fraser, in his then capacity as National Commissioner of Correctional Services, had granted Zuma medical parole. This decision was declared unlawful and set aside. Zuma must return to prison. And, none of the days wrongly spent away from prison as a medical parolee, will count towards his 15 month sentence that he had been given by the constitutional court after he was found guilty of contempt of court. In this explainer podcast, I walk you through the decision of the court and explain the legal reasoning for you. I end with my own commentary in support of this decision. Have a listen.