CR17 funders have committed a grave mistake and have set Ramaphosa up for failure | IOL News

I agree that President Cyril Ramaphosa might have done nothing illegal in soliciting around a billion rand from South African captains of industry for his ANC presidency campaign, and his spin doctors are completely missing the point when they use this line. They are also missing the point when they call for Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and leaders of other political parties to reveal their funders because those people did not win the elections and are not heads of state.

We are now being sent on a wild goose chase, diverted to a legal argument about how these emails were obtained. I find this hypocritical. When the Gupta emails were leaked, that question never arose. The principle is the same. When so much money is spent on one man, the perception of being captured becomes real. Some of these companies and individuals are doing business with the state, and some were rewarded handsomely – they definitely want the status quo to remain.

I’ve just read a letter from Johnny Copelyn, the CEO of HCI, a company that owns eNCA, Golden Arrow Bus Service, Tsogo Sun and many others. He is part of the naive bunch that thinks the ANC can self-correct under Ramaphosa, who has been part of the rot. He couldn’t be more wrong. He and his friends have committed a grave mistake by donating millions of rand to Ramaphosa’s campaign, and have set Ramaphosa up for failure for what they did.

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