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A matter that continues to tax many of us leads to confidence in SARB being lost in translation

I HAVE so many questions about the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) year-long investigation and report into the controversial Phala Phala scandal – where it recently cleared President Cyril Ramaphosa of any wrongdoing by not declaring the millions in foreign exchange his game farm received from Sudanese businessman Hazim Mustafa to obtain a few heads of buffalo.

Why Mustafa never arranged to have his haul fetched is question number one. He did acknowledge a sale to Annika Larsen in an eNCA interview shortly after the scandal broke and also said he still

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