Ramaphosa's Phala Phala skeletons refuse to stay buried

PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosas Phala Phala scandal is refusing to remain locked away in the political closet, resurfacing yet again as ActionSA prepares a legal challenge that could force fresh scrutiny of events the state has tried to seal off from public view.

- KAMOGELO MOICHELA

In a statement yesterday, ActionSA National Chairperson, Michael Beaumont, said they had begun preparing legal papers to challenge the Independent Police Investigating Directorates (IPID) decision to classify its investigation report as “Top Secret”. The party’s action follows an appeal lodged last month, which IPID failed to respond to. ActionSA said the silence forms part of a broader pattern of obstruction that has marked its efforts since April 2025 to obtain the report.

Those efforts were repeatedly delayed, including explanations from IPID that its email systems were down.

The Phala Phala controversy erupted in 2022 after it emerged that large sums of foreign currency were stolen from Ramaphosa’s Limpopo game farm in 2020.