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The former State Security Agency boss, Arthur Fraser has leaked an explosive 48-page affidavit detailing the cold, hard cash that President Cyril Ramaphosa was storing in his home’s furniture.

While Fraser might have his own, possibly dodgy, motives to go after Ramaphosa like this, it is rather odd that our President had an alleged $4 million (not even Rands, nogal) in cash hidden in his Phala Phala residence in Limpopo.

This has come to light since Fraser released a CCTV video as evidence, showing the purported burglary at Phala Phala and the suspected robbery of all that money.

While Ramaphosa was away in Addis Ababa for an African Union summit, the alleged crime took place:

The Citizen has more about how this allegedly unfolded:

Fraser’s explosive 48-page affidavit to the Rosebank police details how a cleaner on the farm discovered an excess of $4 million in cash in the president’s Phala Phala residence.

The domestic worker allegedly photographed the cash – which Ramaphosa said was the proceeds of game sales – and sent it to her brother who then conspired with a group of suspects to rob the president.

TimesLIVE reported that Fraser accused Ramaphosa of not reporting the crime, further alleging that the suspects were tortured and paid off so as to not talk about the incident.

News24 covered the whereabouts and dealings of the suspects in detail if you want to track that side of things.

Ramaphosa says that he actually did report it to the Presidential Protection Unit, which forms part of the Saps:

However, it would appear that officials investigating the break-in tracked down the suspects using state resources, and then paid off the suspects in exchange for silence about the crime that took place – allegedly on the president’s orders.

The president has denied any wrongdoing, but one has to acknowledge that hiding so much money is rather sketchy.

It could be possible that he was either evading paying tax on the sales on the breeding of his exotic wildlife at Phala Phala.

And/or it could be possible that he had contravened various fiscal and currency control laws.

At least he has pledged to fully corporate with investigations into Fraser’s criminal charges against him.

Then again, there are also those who believe that Fraser is reacting after being implicated in the state capture inquiry report released by inquiry chair chief justice Raymond Zondo.

At times like these, I like to head over to Zethu on TikTok. She’s often the only reason that I can make sense of any South African situation:

@zethugqola There’s more to it but I’m not in the mood for a multi-video series lol. You’re welcome. #tiktoknews #cyrilramaphosa #arthurfraser #southafrica ♬ original sound – Zethu

Eish.

[sources:timeslive&citizen]