Phala Phala panel report: Court questions evidence that Ramaphosa engaged in paid work

“Because any transaction on the charge as it was put up, any transaction that was done by that farm, even if it was for one buffalo and no foreign currency was involved, any such transaction would constitute paid work.”“So, to cut to the chase, if you don’t take issue with any of those provisions and they allow a president to have financial interests and to hold an interest in a closed corporation which trades, what is the basis of the finding that the president concluded or did paid work by the fact that there was some transaction on Christmas Day involving foreign currency under dubious circumstances on Christmas Day?

Advocate Perumalsamy said the panel did interpret the words ‘other paid work’ and applied them to the president’s alleged involvement in the farm operations.