Cyril, what a load of bull...
The president paid R500 000 for a Boran stud at an auction. Officially the largest Ankole breeder, Ramaphosa also breeds Boran and Bonsmara.
President Cyril Ramaphosa sent an employee from his farm, Ntaba Nyoni, to spend R500 000 on a Boran stud at a cattle auction at “The Bull Ring”, in affiliation with Hurwitz farming, in Mpumalanga over the weekend.
Beeld newspaper reported that Ramaphosa’s bull is called Jameson, a five-year-old weighing in at 940kg.
He is the brother of a heifer sold for a record R300 000, which explains his rather steep price tag.
It is no secret that Ramaphosa has a penchant for the finer things in life, with his passion for African cattle breeds clearly palpable in his coffee table book called Cattle of Kings.
His favourite are the Ankole, which hail from Uganda.
According to a blurb of his book, Ramaphosa is officially the largest Ankole breeder in the country.
The president also breeds Boran and Bonsmara.
Meanwhile, Minister in the Presidency and ANC national executive committee (NEC) member Jackson Mthembu announced the party was happy with how its officials were dealing with matters relating to Ramaphosa’s 2017 campaign for the presidency.
This comes after e-mails were leaked to the media detailing correspondence during the presidential campaign.
Media reports over the past weekend claimed these were the e-mails Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane had relied upon to find Ramaphosa guilty of lying to parliament when claiming he was unaware of the donations, or his son’s involvement.
But Mkhwebane’s spokesperson, Oupa Segalwe, has since denied the e-mails were those in her possession, or that she had even seen the correspondence in question.