Cyril Ramaphosa cleared of wrongdoing over Phala Phala theft

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South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa has been cleared by a state ombudsman of wrongdoing over the theft of thousands of US dollars stuffed into a sofa on his private game farm, a boost as he battles to put the biggest threat to his presidency behind him.

Kholeka Gcaleka, South Africa’s acting public protector, said on Friday that Ramaphosa did not violate an ethics code over the fallout from the 2020 incident when at least $580,000 was stolen from…