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CAPE TOWN, July 21-- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday challenged Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane over her allegations that he violated the Executive Ethics Code. Mkhwebane's report to this effect "contains numerous factual inaccuracies of a material nature," Ramaphosa said. On Friday, Mkhwebane released the report about her investigation into a controversial donation worth 500,000 rand (about 36,000 U.S. dollars) to the president's election campaign fund. The donation was made by Bosasa company, also known as African Global Operations, to Ramaphosa's campaign team in 2017 to fund his African National Congress (ANC) presidential campaign. Ramaphosa was deputy president then. Mkhwebane found that Ramaphosa deliberately misled Parliament in November last year when he said in the House that he did not know the details of the donation his campaign office received. Ramaphosa said at that time that the donation was in fact payment for services to his son's company. But in the report, Mkhwebane rejected Ramaphosa's claim, saying the president is duty-bound to declare funds deposited into his campaign account because he personally benefitted from the Bosasa donation. Mkhwebane said Ramaphosa ought to have declared all the funds received for his campaign as some of the money collected through Ramaphosa's campaign account was transferred to the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation account. | 
