Wally Rhoode

The former public protector said President Cyril Ramaphosa sanctioned the police’s illegal conduct during their investigation into the Phala Phala theft

The National Prosecuting Authority says Ramaphosa is off the Phala Phala hook

Cyril Ramaphosa’s counsel has countered that the case is stillborn because the National Assembly had a right to reject the findings of the Ngcobo panel

The ATM’s argument that she skirted this and other issues in the scandal had no merit, Gcaleka’s office has argued in court papers

Acting public protector Kholeka Gcaleka however found his security head Wally Rhoode had acted improperly

Minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni suggested the government could demarche the Polish ambassador for diplomatic offence

South African journalists and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s security were stuck in Poland despite the president having earlier met Poland’s leader

But Kholeka Gcaleka has recommended that action be taken against former presidential protection service head Wally Rhoode

The president quoted from the Ncgobo report selectively in his bid to have it set aside by the constitutional court, the African Transformation Movement said

A panel has found that the president has a case to answer for receiving foreign currency, not reporting it stolen and enabling secret efforts to recover it

A panel has found prima facie evidence that the president broke the law in receiving foreign currency, not reporting it stolen and enabling secret efforts to recover it

The president has to answer serious charges about the origin of the money stolen from his farm and ‘secret’ efforts to recover it, a section 89 panel has concluded

The findings of the three-member panel will be debated in the House on 6 December

The president told MPs he reported the matter to a police general who would have to explain what happened

The head of the presidential protection unit went to Windhoek but was not told the reason for the meeting with Namibia’s leader