South African President Ramaphosa Survives No Confidence Vote in Parliament

South African President Ramaphosa Survives No Confidence Vote in Parliament

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has survived a vote of no confidence in his administration, after the country's parliament shut down the report of experts who were investigating allegations of money laundering against him. South Africa's parliament has rejected a report by a panel of legal experts whose preliminary assessment says Ramaphosa may have breached ethics by hiding money in his farm. Ramaphosa has been under investigation due to allegations that he did not report to the police the theft of 4 million dollars that occurred on his farm in 2020. The robbery took place on Ramaphosa's farm in Limpopo, northeastern South Africa. The allegations were made by the former head of the intelligence department. South African Parliament in session. Ramaphosa has emphasized that the money did not belong to the fork but was his after selling the buffalo to a businessman from Sudan. MPs voted against the investigation report. Opposition MPs had proposed that the vote be held by secret ballot, but their proposal was rejected. 214 MPs have voted to turn off the report, 148 in favor and two boycotted the vote. Four MPs from the ruling party African National Congress ANC, including the former wife of former president Jacob Zuma Dlamini Zuma, have voted to support the report of legal experts, against the wishes of the central committee of the party. Speaker Mapisa's decision South African Parliament Speaker Mapisa Nqakula has announced that no charges can be filed against Ramaphosa, after the investigation report was closed. ANC spokesperson Mabe Pule said that the position of the party's central committee, NEC, is to reject the report and that any member of parliament who votes in support of the report will have violated the party's values ​​and will be dealt with in the same way as a disciplinary violator. South African political analyst Peter Bigenda has said that "it was expected to see that President Cyril Ramaphosa is cleared of all blame and leaves the opposition MPs without answers because that is the procedure of the ANC party from the past, that all MPs from the ruling party must unite to save the administration of the incumbent president as happened to Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki." The African National Congress party is expected to organize the election of its leader and other party officials in the party's main congress that will be held from 16 to 20 December this year 2022. The conference, which was held in Johannesburg, hopes to hand over the responsibilities of President Ramaphosa to continue leading the ANC, and run for another term in power in the 2024 general election.