How reliable is Fraser as a whistle-blower?įraser claimed in his affidavit that he was coming forward at this point “guided by the dictates of the interests of justice and our Constitution”, which is a lovely idea, but completely implausible.įraser has a clear axe to grind against Ramaphosa, who removed him from the State Security Agency (SSA) after evidence emerged that the country’s intelligence apparatus under Fraser had become a deeply politicised force working to entrench the power of former president Jacob Zuma.Īs Makhudu Sefara pointed out in an incisive Sunday Times op-ed, “Presidents around the world are seized with the mammoth headache of getting rid of spy chiefs they don’t trust but who know enough to plunge governments into crises.” Which would seemingly make this the textbook example of “crime does, in fact, pay”. Never saw the inside of a jail cell were never charged in the case of the domestic worker, never even lost their job and ended up with a R150,000 present - by way of punishment for having stolen millions from a sitting president?Ĭorrect, according to Fraser. He further claims that the employee not only received one of the R150,000 pay-offs but also was ultimately reinstated in her job after some patriarchal man-talk between Ramaphosa and her father. The mastermind behind the theft, Fraser alleges, was Ramaphosa’s domestic worker at the farm. Mishandling of the Ramaphosa farm forex theft reflected in state accountability documents
In Fraser’s version, Rhoode and his team did just that, via an entirely unlawful caper that involved kidnapping and interrogating suspects, tracking some of them to Namibia, and ultimately paying off six suspects to the tune of R150,000 per person to not breathe a word of what had happened.
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(Coincidentally, this is also the plot of almost every movie starring The Rock.)
Fraser alleged that Ramaphosa did not report the theft to the police, and instead instructed the head of his Presidential Protection Unit, Major-General Wally Rhoode, to essentially go rogue: find the criminals, get the money back, and keep it all quiet.