Farmgate A sofa, $4m and a rising scandal for Ramaphosa
Local media have called it “Farmgate”. Astonishing details have leaked over months, embroiling Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s affable president, in a plot that might be lifted directly from a gritty TV crime series.
The story begins with a complaint lodged by a disaffected former head of South Africa’s intelligence service at a Johannesburg police station detailing the theft two years ago of $4m in cash from a farm owned by Ramaphosa in Limpopo province,
