ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has again defended his controversial CR17 campaign funding that catapulted him to the party’s top job. According to Ramaphosa, all was above board in the campaign towards the ANC Nasrec elective conference in 2017. He said talk that the money was used to buy votes, was simply too far-fetched.

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