Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are back for episode seven of Sharp Sharp, the weekly podcast on South African politics, money and power from Currency News and Scrolla.Africa.
This week the Constitutional Court ruled that Parliament failed in its duty when it buried the section 89 panel report on Phala Phala. An impeachment enquiry is now required. Rob and Zuks dig into everything you need to know about how $580,000 in cash ended up stuffed under a couch on Cyril Ramaphosa’s game farm, why a Sudanese businessman arrived to buy a buffalo and left without it, and why the president who nearly resigned in 2022 is not going anywhere this time.
They also ask the question South Africa cannot stop arguing about. Has Ramaphosa actually been good for the country? Rob gives him 65 percent. Zuks gives him 80. The disagreement is the conversation.
Then they close with the construction mafia story of the week. A JSE listed company paid eight and a half million rand to a mafia boss for what was invoiced as strategic security services. Rob and Zuks on what it says about crime, the state and the slow cleanup that nobody is talking about.
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