SA President leaves his fate in party's hands | 3News.com

The president has now said the party top brass should decide his next move.

The leaders of the governing Africa National Congress (ANC) are currently meeting in Johannesburg to discuss the findings of the report.

Speaking outside the venue for the meeting, the president said that his fellow members of the National Working Committee had given him permission not to attend “so that they’re free to express themselves as openly and as thoroughly as possible without any form of fear or favour”.

The scandal erupted in June, when a former South African spy boss, Arthur Fraser, filed a complaint with police accusing the president of hiding a theft of $4m (£3.25m) in cash from his Phala Phala game farm in 2020.

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

The president said the $580,000 had come from the sale of buffalo, but the panel, headed by a former chief justice, said it had “substantial doubt” about whether a sale took place.

On Saturday, Mr Ramaphosa’s spokesman Vincent Magwenya said the president was “not resigning based on a flawed report, neither is he stepping aside”.