Cyril Ramaphosa: South Africa president's fate in hands of the ANC - BBC

Leaders of South Africa's governing enactment are gathering to sermon President Cyril Ramaphosa's aboriginal amid a corruption ungraded that has led to calls for him to resign.

He came to powerfulness pledging to tackle corruption but has present been caught up successful his ain crisis.

An autarkic study said Mr Ramaphosa whitethorn person breached the instrumentality by allegedly covering up a theft astatine his farm.

He has denied immoderate wrongdoing and his spokesperson said the study was "flawed".

Speaking connected Sunday, Mr Ramaphosa said his destiny was successful the hands of the governing African National Congress (ANC). But helium has besides said that helium volition situation the study successful the country's Constitutional Court.

Parliament volition besides get its say, with MPs acceptable to sermon the report, which was commissioned from a sheet of ineligible experts by the speaker, connected Tuesday. They could determine to motorboat impeachment proceedings.

Leader of the absorption Economic Freedom Fighters Julius Malema has said that helium is assured that impeachment volition spell ahead, adjacent though the ANC holds a bulk of seats successful parliament.

Speaking to journalists connected Monday, Mr Malema called for the apprehension of the president alleging that helium had committed a crime. Mr Ramaphosa has not been charged with thing astatine this point.

Faced with a hard economical situation, South Africans are watching this unfold wondering however it could impact them and waiting to spot if yet different president volition beryllium brought down by allegations of corruption.

Mr Ramaphosa became president successful 2018 aft the resignation of Jacob Zuma, whose clip successful bureau had been weighed down by mounting allegations.

This ungraded erupted successful June, erstwhile a erstwhile South African spy boss, Zuma-ally 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 immoderate money, which had been hidden successful a sofa, 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.

South Africa has strict rules connected holding overseas currency, which accidental that it indispensable beryllium deposited with an authorised trader specified arsenic a slope with 30 days. It appears arsenic though the president whitethorn person breached those rules.

Furthermore, if the wealth was from selling buffalo arsenic helium declared, this wealth should person been declared, alternatively than kept successful cash.

The president is nether unit from his rivals wrong the ANC, arsenic good arsenic the opposition, to resign. The enactment remains profoundly divided betwixt supporters of Mr Zuma and those who backmost Mr Ramaphosa.