Cyril Ramaphosa: South Africa leader won't resign, says spokesman - BBC

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa volition not resign contempt a ungraded implicit wealth stolen from his farm, his spokesperson says.

The enactment centres connected claims helium kept ample sums of currency connected his spot past covered up its theft.

A sheet of ineligible experts concluded that helium has a lawsuit to answer.

But Mr Ramaphosa's spokesperson suggested helium would combat on, and alternatively than discontinue would question a 2nd word arsenic person of his ANC party.

"President Ramaphosa is not resigning based connected a flawed report, neither is helium stepping aside," Vincent Magwenya said.

"It whitethorn beryllium successful the agelong word involvement and sustainability of our law democracy, good beyond the Ramaphosa presidency, that specified a intelligibly flawed study is challenged," helium added.

The ungraded erupted successful June, erstwhile a erstwhile South African spy boss, Arthur Fraser, filed a ailment with constabulary accusing the president of hiding a theft of $4m (£3.25m) successful currency from his Phala Phala crippled workplace successful 2020.

Mr Ramaphosa admitted that wealth had been stolen, but said it was $580,000, not $4m.

The president said the $580,000 had travel from the merchantability of buffalo, but the panel, headed by a erstwhile main justice, said it had "substantial doubt" astir whether a merchantability took place.

The panel's findings person been handed to parliament, which is acceptable to analyse them and determine whether oregon not to motorboat impeachment proceedings against the president.

Mr Ramaphosa is besides nether unit from the opposition, arsenic good arsenic rivals from his governing African National Congress (ANC), to resign.

He is owed to conscionable the ANC's apical enactment bodies connected Sunday and Monday aft failing to crook up astatine an earlier meeting.

The ungraded is particularly damaging for Mr Ramaphosa due to the fact that helium came to powerfulness vowing to wide up the corruption which had dogged the state nether his predecessor, Jacob Zuma.

The ANC remains profoundly divided betwixt supporters of Mr Zuma and those who backmost Mr Ramaphosa.

Mr Ramaphosa volition beryllium challenged for the ANC's enactment by his erstwhile wellness curate Zweli Mkhize, who has besides been accused of corruption. He denies the allegations.