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Cattle-loving president accused of ” removal “of the “millions” of dollars “hidden” in the furniture of his stolen farmhouse and a spy weighed down with a battery of saucepans so bulky that he could open a hardware store in the role of the ” alert launcher “. These are the contours of the improbable scenario which gives cold sweats to the South African head of state, Cyril Ramaphosa, six months before the election of the president of the ANC, the ruling party, on which depends the future of the presidency.
Brought to the helm on a promise to end the endemic corruption that marked the tenure of his predecessor, Jacob Zuma, President Ramaphosa has grappled with a faction loyal to the former president since coming to power . The battle took an incredible turn on Wednesday 1er June.
On this day, Arthur Fraser, head of the powerful State Security Agency, South Africa’s intelligence services from 2016 to 2018, shows up at a police station in Johannesburg. The sulphurous master spy has been promising explosive revelations on the top of the state for a long time. The time has come to show its cards.
Arthur Fraser comes to file a complaint against the President of the Republic, whom he accuses of ” removal “, of ” corruption ” and D’“obstruction of justice”. To these accusations, he adds suspicions of money laundering. In the process, Arthur Fraser publishes a press release claiming that the president would have kidnapped and questioned burglars who fell on “more than four million dollars”, “hidden” in one of his properties, in February 2020, before buying their silence. “The president concealed this crime from the police and/or the tax authorities and then paid the culprits for their silence”he assures.
“The Spy Who Saved Zuma”
Summary, the declaration is enough to leave you incredulous at first sight. Because Arthur Fraser is not just anyone. In 2009, he was nicknamed “The Spy Who Saved Zuma” by the South African press after the abandonment of charges for corruption in the context of an arms sale which target Jacob Zuma, just a month before his election as president. An audio recording questioning the neutrality of the investigators got the better of the investigations. Then deputy director of intelligence, Arthur Fraser is at the origin of the leak of the document.
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