Cyril Ramaphosa: South African leader leaves future in ANC hands

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said his destiny is successful his party's hands, successful his archetypal comments since an authoritative study connected a ungraded implicit wealth stolen from his farm.

Opponents person called for his resignation aft a sheet of ineligible experts concluded helium whitethorn person breached the law.

On Saturday, Mr Ramaphosa's spokesperson suggested helium would combat on.

The president has present said the enactment apical brass should determine his adjacent move.

The leaders of the governing Africa National Congress (ANC) are presently gathering successful Johannesburg to sermon the findings of the report.

Speaking extracurricular the venue for the meeting, the president said that his chap members of the National Working Committee had fixed him support not to be "so that they're escaped to explicit themselves arsenic openly and arsenic thoroughly arsenic imaginable without immoderate signifier of fearfulness oregon favour".

On Monday, the ANC's larger decision-making body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), volition besides beryllium meeting.

"It is up to the National Executive Committee, which I americium accountable to, to instrumentality immoderate decision," Mr Ramaphosa told journalists.

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.

On Saturday, Mr Ramaphosa's spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said the president was "not resigning based connected a flawed report, neither is helium stepping aside".

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

Mr Ramaphosa is besides nether unit from the opposition, arsenic good arsenic rivals wrong the ANC, to resign.

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.