South African government plunged into crisis over ‘Farmgate’ scandal

Presidency of Cyril Ramaphosa ‘hangs in the balance’ after theft of $4m stuffed inside a sofa at his ranch

Cyril Ramaphosa
The scandal began when a sum between $500,000 and $5m was stolen from Ramaphosa’s ranch in 2020
(Image credit: Getty Images)

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa could be forced to quit over a scandal involving a theft at his buffalo farm.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.