In democratic systems, public officials face intense scrutiny and pressure to demonstrate accountability when scandals emerge, as demonstrated by the unified opposition challenge against President Ramaphosa during the Phala Phala scandal, where political movements combined to demand transparency and resignation, illustrating how public scrutiny can hold leaders responsible for alleged misconduct.
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RAMAPHOSA LEFT IN TEARS AS EFF AND MK PARTY UNITE TO DESTROY HIM ON NATIONAL TELEVISIONAdded:
I stand to reject this budget vote.
Mr. Ramaphosa, you can um you can no longer hide behind the courts instead of serving the people.
You can do the simple thing by resigning.
>> Ramaphosa has been left under intense pressure after an unexpected show of unity between the EFF and the MK Party as both political movements joined forces to confront him over the controversial Phala Phala scandal. For those who may not remember, the Phala Phala scandal first exploded in 2022 when allegations emerged that a large amount of foreign currency had been hidden at President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala game farm. Questions were raised about where the money came from, why it was allegedly kept on the property, and how a reported theft at the farm was handled. Since then, opposition parties have repeatedly demanded answers with many arguing that South Africans deserve full transparency from their president. Now, the controversy has returned to center stage. During today's heated budget hearing broadcast live on national television, members of both the EFF and the MK Party stood up one after another and directly challenged Ramaphosa. The atmosphere inside Parliament quickly became tense as lawmakers demanded that the president either fully address the Phala Phala allegations or seriously consider stepping down. What shocked many observers was not just the criticism itself, but the fact that the EFF and MK Party appeared united in their message. Both parties delivered strong statements insisting that the issue cannot simply be ignored and that South Africans are still waiting for answers. And here's the interesting part. Much of the mainstream media coverage has focused on selected moments from today's proceedings, but many people have have seen the full sequence of events as they happened. That's why I've compiled the key moments together, one after another, so you can watch and decide for yourself what really took place inside Parliament today. Before we begin, make sure you smash that subscribe button, leave a like, and share this video with friends and family who want to stay informed about South African politics. Daniel, show our viewers the first video.
>> Our chairperson, the president has a tendency to run away when we speak here.
He did it during SONA, and I see he's doing it again.
But his colleagues will inform him. We must begin by uh convening conveying our heartfelt condolences to the family of Tlamelo 19-year-old young man from Limpopo whose life was brutally cut short in Mossel Bay yesterday.
We extend our sympathies to his parents, his sister Nontlankhla, and all those who loved him.
It is believed that Tlamelo was a victim of the lawlessness which has engulfed our nation over the past months and weeks. Welcome back, Mr. President.
Our chairperson, the president and commander-in-chief of the EFF has for many years warned against the normalization of Afrophobic vigilantism and the hatred against black Africans would eventually cost innocent South African lives.
This is precisely because the cousin of xenophobia is tribalism.
The cousin of Afrophobia is tribalism.
The two are simply inseparable. Mr. President, what should concern you even more as head of state is that these vigilante groups are not operating in secret. They are breaking the law openly in front of law enforcement officers.
They are beating and assaulting people in front of the police. Why should we not believe that this violence is state sponsored? Why should we not believe that this anarchy is sponsored by you as the state when crime is committed in front of those who are supposed to be custodians of the law? Where is the voice of the Minister of the Police? Mr. President, when you rise and respond here, you must reiterate and outline what will be what you will be doing to address this crisis before more South African lives are lost. You must never get tired of explaining yourself to the people of South Africa. Mr. President, in your state of the nation address, you stood before this house and committed to the employment of an additional 10,000 labor inspectors to protect South African workers from exploitation and address non-compliance with labor legislation. Where are the 10,000 additional labor inspectors, Mr. President? Your Minister of Small Business stood before South Africans and announced 500 million fund for spaza shops for South Africans. Where is the 500 million fund for spaza shops for South Africans? How many township entrepreneurs have touched it and felt it? Mr. President, in the same SONA, you promised the country a new university in Ekurhuleni, a promise which you made in 2020, by the way, 6 years ago. Yet, the Minister of Education Higher Education has failed to identify a mere site, Mr. President. There is no site for a commitment that you made 6 years ago, no foundation, no construction team, and no building plan. Mr. President, these ministers clearly do not take you seriously. When a president speaks and makes a commitment before the nation, ministers and government departments are supposed to work around the clock, day and night, to ensure that the commitments made by the president become the reality. Yet, time and again, your promises are ignored by your own ministers. Do you not think that you have lost the moral authority to discipline them? Because leadership is not just about giving instructions.
Leadership is about setting an example.
How do you demand accountability from your ministers when South Africans are still waiting for accountability from you, Mr. President? How do you insist on transparency from your cabinet when the Phala Phala scandal continues to cast a shadow over your presidency? Mr. President, South Africans watched in disbelief as allegations emerged that millions of dollars were hidden and stuffed under couches in your private farm and residence. They watched as questions were raised about how that money got there, how much was there, and why was that money not declared. I heard some members of the ANC raising a point of order. It's not the EFF that said the money was not declared. It's SARS and the South African Reserve Bank. But perhaps the reason why so many South Africans remain uneasy about Phala Phala is because it reminds us of your questionable relationship with big business interests, Mr. President. It has revived questions that have followed you throughout your entire political life. You know, Mr. President, when many of us were growing up in the student movement, we were told that you were the preferred candidate for big business. We were told that you enjoyed the support and mentorship of the Rupert, of the Menell, and the Oppenheimer family. We were told that they regarded you as their guy. We were told that you are their protege. We were told that when President Nelson Mandela chose Thabo Mbeki as his deputy president, you became so upset that you didn't even attend President Mandela's inauguration.
You left politics, Mr. President. You went into business and years later you came back. So, the question we must ask is what made you come back to politics, Mr. President? Who persuaded you to leave business and return to politics?
We ask this because South Africa now knows that you tried to resign as president on two occasions and this is not a rumor. Your national chairperson of the ANC sitting right in front of me confirmed this thing. Yet, somehow you remained. Who exactly persuaded you to stay, Mr. President? Was it really the ANC leadership? Was it really those who sit behind you in this house? Or was the pressure coming from somewhere else, Mr. President? Was it Stellenbosch which concluded that despite the crisis facing our country, you remain the safest pair of hands for their interests? Are they the ones who told you not to resign even when unemployment remains at catastrophic levels under your leadership? Are they the ones telling you not to resign even when millions of young people wake up every morning without hope of finding work? Are they the ones telling you not to resign even when workers struggle with rising costs, rising petrol, rising diesel, rising wages, deepening their further poverty?
Are they the ones telling you not to resign, Mr. President, even when municipalities are failing to deliver basic services to our people? Are they the ones telling you not to resign, Mr. President, even when the Constitutional Court told you and your party that what you did was wrong by using your majority to try and hide the truth? ARE THEY THE ONES WHO ARE TELLING you not to resign, President, even when your own conscience is telling you to resign, Mr. President?
Mr. President, Phala Phala is your Achilles' heel. You know, when we watch movies, chair, couches, furniture, and things like fridges, beds, and wardrobes are often used by criminal syndicates to transport drugs, to transport money, to transport weapons, and even to transport and traffic human organs. They use furniture to conceal the criminal proceeds and move things around without and avoiding public scrutiny. This is why many South Africans will struggle, Mr. President, to accept the explanation that this money just found its way into your couch because when you hide money into the couch, you must first damage the couch. You must cut the couch. You must create a hole in the couch to stuff that money in. So, what exactly happened in your Phala Phala farm, Mr. President?
When people hear that millions of dollars were discovered inside furniture, they do not think about your ordinary farming operations. They think about the methods which are used all over the world by criminal cartels to hide things that cannot withstand public scrutiny. This is why you fear the impeachment committee. This is why the ANC fears the impeachment committee. We know that you don't care about the vote that will come at the end. What you are scared of is the scrutiny when we continue to dig deeper into what happened in the palapala farm, Mr. President. And when that moment comes, you will sit alone on that chair. No network of powerful powerful friends will be with you. No proximity to wealth and business elites will be able to shield you from the truth that will be placed on the records. Not the Ruperts, not the Oppenheimers, not Stellenbosch, not the Manuels, and not even your own caucus of the ANC. Mr. President, presidents and prime ministers across the world have actually resigned for far lesser things. They've resigned for simple lies. They've resigned for simple scandals. But even when the Constitutional Court says to you, you are wrong, you are insisting on digging your heels in. Mr. President, history will not remember you for palapala alone. History will remember you for refusing an opportunity to resign even when the people of South Africa wanted to give you a dignified and honorable exit. Do the honorable thing, Mr. President, and resign.
>> [cheering] [applause] >> The honorable Douglas.
>> Well, if you thought the previous exchange was harsh enough, then think again. Because while the EFF representative was turning up the heat inside the chamber, the MK party member took things to an entirely different level. The atmosphere was already tense.
Lawmakers were already exchanging words, and many believed they had heard the strongest criticism of the day. But then the MK party representative rose to his feet. What happened next caught the attention of everyone in the room.
Without hesitation, he marched straight to the microphone and delivered a statement that sent shockwaves through Parliament. His remarks were even more direct, more aggressive, and more explosive than many expected. As cameras rolled and the nation watched live, he intensified the pressure on President Ramaphosa, raising fresh questions and demanding accountability in a way that left the chamber buzzing. The reaction inside Parliament was immediate. Some members applauded, others shook their heads, but one thing was clear, this was no ordinary speech. The temperature inside the room had just gone up several degrees. And if you thought the EFF's criticism was tough, wait until you hear what the MK Party representative had to say. This next moment may be one of the most talked about exchanges from the entire hearing. Daniel, show them the next bombshell.
>> Thank you, House Chair.
I bring you revolutionary greetings from our revolutionary movement uMkhonto weSizwe.
I also want to send my greetings to the president of our movement, uNgamala.
I stand to reject this budget vote.
Mr. Ramaphosa, you can um you can no longer hide behind the courts instead of serving the people.
You can do the simple thing by resigning.
You are hiding behind the law whilst being a constitutional delinquent.
But but resigning is unfortunately not in your decision. We all know that you occupy that position by virtue of the 1 billion rand bribe from the Stellenbosch mafia.
You are president of Stellenbosch.
The same funders who gave you 1 billion rand are the funders of the chairperson of the impeachment committee.
This whole thing is being rigged.
But we are here. We are watching and we won't allow the Stellenbosch mafia agenda to succeed.
We see you.
Mr. Ramaphosa, the courts can't protect you anymore from public scrutiny.
It shall not be the repeat of the concealment of the billion-rand bribe money you received from Stellenbosch.
Uh which was concealed by the television.
Mr. Ramaphosa, you have a long history of wrongdoing against the people of South Africa.
You call your call for a concomitant action against the Marikana workers shall never be forgotten.
Those who elected you uh have their hands with your hands dripping in blood also must take responsibility.
To remind you, Mr. Ramaphosa, those who cast doubt >> Order, honorable member.
You take your seat. What is the point of order, honorable member?
>> Thank you very much, chairperson.
Chairperson, I would like you to rule on whether it is parliamentary for a member to intimate that the president received 1 billion rand bribe money.
Is this not casting aspersions? Thank you very much.
>> Yes. No, thank you, honorable member.
Honorable members, I would request you that you when you follow the debate and a statement is made that we immediately take a point of order so that I can rule on it. However, in terms of this one, I will request the honorable member to withdraw that statement.
You said that You said that the president received the billion rand bribe.
No, I'm dealing with this point of order.
You will withdraw that statement, please.
You're are aspersions the office of the president and the president in person.
>> Okay, for for purpose sake I will withdraw.
>> Thank you. You may Order. You may proceed honorable member.
>> Yes, but the workers of Marikana died because they wanted nothing but a living wage. They wanted education for their children. They were no criminals. You called the police on them and they were massacred. That seem to be your thing, sir.
What happened to the CR17 alleged money launderer lawyer?
>> Order. Order. Order honorable member.
You take your seat. What's the point of order honorable member?
>> Um thank you. Thank you um chair. Chair, would you please rule on the statements that the honorable member is making?
>> Which rule are you rising on?
>> In the light of the fact that there has been a commission of inquiry into Marikana and there were not findings made against President Ramaphosa as per the speech of this member is casting aspersions. Casting aspersions.
>> Honorable members.
Honorable members.
I listen to a point of order and I make a ruling. Right?
Don't prescribe to me.
Don't prescribe to me.
I am in charge of this session and I will execute it according to the rules.
Now there's a point of order that has been taken. Honorable Duckmore, I will ask the table staff to assist me and I will come back with a considered ruling.
There is two three hands who is in charge of taking the point of order?
Because three hands are up. Honorable Douglas.
>> Thank you um honorable chair. I will rise in rule 84. Um the honorable member is improperly imputing motives to another member. They are actually imputing improper motives to our member and in in reality he's clarifying that >> I said I'll come back with a considered ruling.
>> He doesn't need to withdraw anything, Mr. Speaker. Who's the chief whip of the ANC?
>> I'll come back with a considered ruling.
Yes, honorable Reddy.
>> Thank you, honorable House Chair. Please rule on these frivolous points of order by the ANC because it is a fact about the bribery money in the CR17.
>> Honorable member, I have made a ruling on that matter. You will withdraw that statement now.
>> Which statement?
>> And if you don't want to withdraw the statement because there's a ruling that I have made on it, then you will face the repercussions of repeating a statement that I have ruled out of order.
>> The statement that you ruled >> Remove him or order.
Honorable member, honorable member, you will withdraw that statement.
>> Oh, for the sake of progress, I will withdraw the >> much.
>> points of order. Please stop that.
>> Honorable member, I will rule.
>> comrades, please. Thank >> I will rule.
Please proceed, honorable Mkhize.
>> Uh President, what happened to your CR17 alleged money launderer lawyer, Vicky Eugene Faber, who was who has allegedly died in his sleep?
>> Chairperson, >> Faber was a law Faber's law firm is allegedly to have received the Bosasa 500,000 on your behalf. The lawyer died mysteriously and hurriedly buried.
We also have questions about the death of the Bosasa boss, Gavin Watson, a billionaire who died in a tent in a tent in Kasane, Limpopo.
The list is long, Mr. Ramaphosa. We remind the nation of the mysterious death of deputy commissioner of the police Bheki crime tension >> Will you take your seat, please? There's somewhere that somebody asked to be recognized there at the back.
There was a hand right at the back.
>> Thank you very much, chairperson. I rise on rule 257.
Um and this would speak to the chief whip of the opposition party, which is the MKP. We know that the MKP chief whip has been arrested. Just want to find out the operation As I took note that they left the And I have they were not given direction as to how to behave and conduct themselves.
>> ORDER.
ORDER. HONORABLE DOUGLAS, will you just relax, please? Honorable member, you asked to rise on a point of order and you raised rule 257.
There is absolutely no relevance to the discussion that is currently taking place.
Let me tell you what it deals with. It deals with the composition of the chief whips forum.
And then you raise other issues. There is absolutely nothing to do with that rule.
Honorable members, please let us treat this debate with the necessary decorum and also with the seriousness that it demands from us.
It doesn't help to throw insults at one another. It doesn't enhance the quality of your input. In fact, it degenerates to something else. But while I am on this point and a point of order has been raised, Honorable Gitama, I've been informed by the table and they've assisted me that you said, and I quote, "Your hands" and this is in to the president.
Your hands are dripping in blood.
You called the police on them and they were massacred.
This casts serious aspersions on the president in terms of the matter that you've raised. It's in violation of rule 85 and you must withdraw that statement.
Order, honorable members.
>> Uh the Marikana workers were >> Honorable member, you must withdraw the statement.
>> Uh I withdraw I withdraw the statement.
>> Thank you.
Please proceed.
>> Okay.
The list is long, Mr. Ramaphosa.
We remind the nation of the mysterious deaths of Deputy Commissioner of Police Crime Detection Lieutenant General uh Sindile Mfazi, who was at the time of his death uh amongst others seized with the investigation of the Phala Phala scandal.
>> Honorable Ndlozi, will you take your seat, please?
Honorable member, why do you want to be recognized?
>> Um Chairperson, there is continuing imputation on the part of the member member on the podium against the person of the president, and I submit that in terms of rules 92 and 93, you rule him out of order because he's continuing along that path endlessly.
>> Honorable member, I cannot silence the member. What I will do is is that in terms of his speech, I will rule on matters that he's raising. And then at this particular point in terms of the rules, I can take a decision. So, I'm listening to what the member is saying.
The duty of the whips is to raise a point of order and I rule on it.
Honorable Ndlozi, you may proceed.
Order, honorable members.
>> Uh the MK party supports the petition named Justice for Lieutenant General Mkhize. Please Google it and support it.
Justice for General Lieutenant Mkhize.
Mr. Ramaphosa, how many more must die in the massive cover-up of your wrongdoing?
Uh death and corruption follow you, sir.
The workers of Marikana died.
>> Honorable Mkhize, um will you please take your seat, please?
Honorable Duckmore.
>> Um thank you, chairperson. Chairperson, once again, the speaker is placing >> Order, honorable members. Order.
>> It is >> Order.
>> is abu- is abusing the rules which say that you cannot impugn the integrity without a substantive motion. If there are allegations, a substantive motion must be brought. But this is an ongoing attempt to Thank you.
to defame uh the president counter to the rules which we have about a substantive motion.
>> Thank you.
Order, honorable members. Order. Wait, honorable Mkhize.
Honorable Douglas, why do you want to be recognized?
>> I [clears throat] want you to be recognized for you to please protect our speakers under rule 92 of the National Assembly rules. Members may not disrupt proceedings by raising points of order that do not comply with this rule.
There's complete frivolous points of order to try and disrupt our member, and this is because >> Honorable member, you are now >> Because they are guilty, they must accept that >> Honorable honorable member Honorable Douglas, you are now imputing motives and acquisitions to the other members by saying they are guilty.
>> Guilty from what?
>> Right? Honorable members, honorable Mkhize, you have continued on this trend. I've made a ruling in terms of a number of matters that you refer to the president.
>> Remove him.
>> And if you continue in this vein, I will unfortunately have to ask you to leave the podium.
This is now your final warning.
You can You can howl and scream at me, honorable members. It's not going to change my mind. I apply the rules of the assembly and you are not going to run the proceedings of this session from where you sitting.
There's rules in this house. Why do you want to be recognized, honorable member?
>> And Tlhogolo Mpshe Ntslalo Ntslalo Honorable member I got caught in any rule here.
Who can handle the matter and we are going to listen and tell me what we are going to do. And Tina must be a good member of the house.
>> Honorable member, that's not That's not a point of order.
That's That is not a point of order. I suggest that you go through the rules and if you have a point of order, you rise. The number of points of order that has been raised against this speaker pertains to the very same rule that has been referred to. I have asked the member on two occasions to withdraw the statements that he has made and he has done so. However, if we continue in this vein and the member continue to violate the rule, I will have to ask him to leave the podium. Please continue, honorable member.
>> Uh thank you, uh chair.
Okay, let us turn to Phala Phala.
So, it is alleged that the phantom buyer dropped the money and didn't pick up his ankole's.
President, you must still tell the nation how did American dollars arrive in the country? Through the Oliver Tambo International Airport or they jumped in Limpopo River on the back of a crocodile?
Mr. Ramaphosa you are allegedly involved in criminal expense.
>> Honorable Mkhize >> allegedly >> Honorable Mkhize Will you just take your seat? I want to recognize the honorable Skhosana.
>> No, thank you very much, honorable chair.
I'm rising on rule 90 uh on the rule of anticipation because the matter that the member is quoting, there is a committee of parliament that has been established to look at it.
So, the member can't make reflection on that particular particular matter because there's a special committee that has been established by parliament to look at it.
Thanks.
>> Honorable member if you read rule 90 in terms of the rule of anticipation it refers to a matter appearing on the order paper or agreed upon by the programming committee for scheduling.
That matter is in front of a committee.
It hasn't started its deliberations yet.
And it's not on the order paper at the moment. Also, the rule order although the rule of anticipation apply when a committee has completed their work and it is placed on the order paper for debate and for discussion.
What I'm doing is to listen very carefully to what the member says.
Broad references to the matter that is the member's right to raise it.
However, when it goes into other matters that has been raised in terms of rule 85, I will rule on that matter. Please proceed.
>> [applause] >> Order.
Uh Mr. Ramaphosa, uh you will not survive the impeachment committee.
There is no safety in the so-called GNU numbers.
The GNU won't provide protection. It will be you standing alone before the impeachment committee. You'll have to answer for all the wrongdoings in your name.
The judiciary is not a forest to hide criminals. No, there shall be no repeat of the concealment of your donor scandal by the judiciary.
Mr. Ramaphosa, the lives of our people have worsened under your rule. Unemployment is a national crisis. Our youth are abandoned to drugs, alcohol abuse, and economic marginalization.
Over 50% are unemployed. What stops you to call a youth unemployment a national disaster so that extraordinary measures can be taken to assist our youth?
South Africa is raising a generation of nyaope addicts.
Why can't you declare that all graduates be employed on a compulsory basis as soon as they graduate?
Our children graduate and languish under poverty and unemployment.
The landless shall not receive land under your government. Your government shows its commitment to the land reform program through allocating less than 1% of the national budget.
Two this year marks 50 years of the June 16 uprising.
A president to honor those uh young people.
Please declare youth unemployment a national disaster.
>> [applause] >> Also, we move as MK party that this part of economy must be reserved only for South Africans.
>> [applause] >> And your comrades in eThekwini, comrade President, are involved in massive corruption.
They are selling land to their friends and they are on inflated prices sometimes so that they can make money. They literally privatizing state land instead of giving it to our landless people to address the housing and land question. Please pay attention to them.
Okay.
Later on, the MK party is bringing to this house an amendment of section 25 of the Constitution to make sure that land is given to our people.
We are black majority in this house.
When that amendment comes through, we hope you'll do the right thing and vote so that land expropriation without compensation can become a reality for our people.
I do want to conclude by saying only uMkhonto weSizwe government shall address the massive problems faced by our people.
uMkhonto weSizwe is going to be in government and uMkhonto weSizwe is going to liberate our people. Gwaza uMkhonto, gwaza.
>> All the honorable members
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