Ntshavheni: Ramaphosa treated as if he stole taxpayers’ money

Ntshavheni was speaking outside Cape Town City Hall ahead of the debate on whether to initiate impeachment proceedings against Ramaphosa on Tuesday.

She confirmed that ANC MPs will reject the report which the party believe is flawed.

The governing party has 230 out of the 400 seats in the National Assembly.

"We are ready to go, we are going to caucus now as a party for the party message to be communicated to us, but we know that have a mandate. We are going to vote against the panel report as the ANC because that's what the party has decided but also because that panel report is not credible enough and there are enough holes in that report.

“So we are going to use our numbers as the ANC because we can't be dictated to by a panel that has not been consistent, that has not been fair and objective.

"That report is biased, it is unobjective and the least we expected from the panel is that they should've been objective.

"We are glad that the president has taken that report on the review so that it can be dealt with its credibility. We have had members of society, and esteemed lawyers saying the report is flawed," said Ntshavheni.

Ntshavheni believes South Africans have no reason to worry about Phala Phala as the president did not steal any taxpayer's money.

"We are dealing with this as if the president has stolen money from somebody. It is his money, it is his private property. It is not the government's money, so why do we want to jump up and down as if it is taxpayers’ money? It is not taxpayers’ money."

Ntshavheni's comment also comes after police removed protestors outside city hall,  demanding the removal of Ramaphosa from office.

Suspended ANC member Charl Niehaus was also present and believes the police's actions are a destruction of the right to freedom of speech.

"We ask that our members of parliament must do the right thing and accept the report of the independent panel, this is exactly what I experienced in the past under the apartheid regime. We are now living under a dictatorship by Cyril Ramaphosa.

It is a shame that a democratic parliament should behave like this. This is not democracy, this is intimidation, this is the destruction of the right to freedom of speech, I am absolutely disgusted," says Niehaus.

Niehaus says it will be a shame if the ANC vote to reject that report.

"ANC members of parliament must act in terms of their conscience and if they act in terms of their conscience they will vote for the acceptance of that report because that report is the report of the whole of parliament, all members of parliament appointed that independent panel.

I am very angry this morning, that when I want to express my democratic views, I get pushed and shoved as if I am not a citizen of this country, I will stand for my rights, I fought for those rights, and I went to prison for those rights, I joined the ANC for those rights, I will not allow for those rights to be taken from me,"

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