DESIGNER luggage stuffed with cash, globe-trotting shopping sprees, Rolls-Royces and Ferraris and dealings with dictatorial regimes – welcome to the world of Hazim Mustafa, international man of mystery and buyer of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s problematic buffalo.
He’s the guy who forked out $580 000 (R9,8 million) in cash for the animals, setting off a chain of events that mired the president in scandal and brought him to the brink of resigning.
Farmgate has seen Ramaphosa facing several damning accusations, including tax evasion, holding undeclared foreign currency and covering up the robbery of the money after it was stolen from inside a couch at his Phala Phala farm.
He’s also accused of misusing state resources by ordering a senior presidential
