Cape Town – ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has reportedly said that the Phala Phala report is not on the agenda of the party’s 55th national conference which is set to resume this week in Mangaung in the Free State.
Mbalula said this while addressing the media at the party’s Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
“There will be no Phala Phala report at the conference. We are entertaining two issues at the conference to finalise … the reports from the commissions and then the constitutional amendments. That will be the business of the second leg of this conference.
“The issue of the Phala Phala report was brought to the national executive committee. There are important milestones in relation to this matter,” IOL quoted Mbalula as saying.
The ANC needed to conclude its national conference, first held in December.
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According to News24, the conference adjourned with essential matters for the party left unresolved.
The Phala Phala saga dominated internal party discussions ahead of the conference in December.
Ramaphosa was under fire after the Section 89 panel report, commissioned by Parliament, found enough evidence to warrant a parliamentary debate on whether he should be impeached.
The ANC, however, later used its majority in Parliament to avoid adopting the report and paving the way for impeachment hearings against the president.
Ramaphosa was being probed by the police and other agencies over the way he handled a burglary at his farm.
He allegedly covered up the theft of $580 000 in cash that was hidden under sofa cushions instead of reporting the loss to the authorities.
The ANC forced his predecessor Jacob Zuma to resign in 2018 over mounting corruption allegations.
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Compiled by Betha Madhomu
Additional information by AFP
