{"id":227804,"date":"2022-06-02T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/presidency-rubbishes-farm-robbery-allegations\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:06:08","slug":"presidency-rubbishes-farm-robbery-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/presidency-rubbishes-farm-robbery-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency rubbishes farm robbery allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202206\/pres12.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The Presidency has quashed allegations of criminal conduct on President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s behalf following a burglary at his Limpopo farm during 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This after former Correctional Services Commissioner, Arthur Fraser, released a media statement on Wednesday, alleging that during the 2020 incident, at least $4 million had been stolen from the President\u2019s farm, and that President Ramaphosa had \u201cconcealed the crime\u201d from police and the SA Revenue Service and \u201cthereafter paid the culprits for their silence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Presidency rubbished those claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Ramaphosa is clear that there is no basis for the claims of criminal conduct that have been made against him in Mr Fraser\u2019s statement. The Presidency can confirm that a robbery took place at the President\u2019s farm in Limpopo on or around 9 February 2020, in which proceeds from the sale of game were stolen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President was attending an African Union Summit in Addis Ababa at the time the incident occurred. On being advised of the robbery, President Ramaphosa reported the incident to the head of the Presidential Protection Unit of the South African Police Service for investigation,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency said President Ramaphosa is \u201cready to cooperate with any law enforcement investigation of these matters\u201d after Fraser laid charges against the President based on the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Ramaphosa remains resolute in leading the fight against corruption, restoring the integrity and capability of public institutions and overcoming the legacy of State capture, and will not be deterred by disinformation campaigns,\u201d the statement read. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has quashed allegations of criminal conduct on President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s behalf following a burglary at his Limpopo farm during 2020. This after former Correctional Services Commissioner, Arthur Fraser, released a media statement on Wednesday, alleging that during the 2020 incident, at least $4 million had been stolen from the President\u2019s farm, and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-227804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/presidency-rubbishes-farm-robbery-allegations.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}