According to sources belonging to the Sunday Times, Jacob Zuma travelled to Libya in 2011,
with the then intelligence minister, Siyabonga Cwele, where the delegation offered the Libyan
leader, Muammar Gaddafi, safe passage to South Africa, as rebel forces closed in on him.
According to an insider, Gaddafi gave Zuma a huge amount of cash, saying that if he was
captured, Zuma must find him a good lawyer to represent him at the International Criminal
Court.
However, later that year, Gaddafi died while being chased by rebels in Tripoli, in October
2011.
Ramaphosa's spokesperson, Khusela Diko, confirmed that the president had travelled to Eswatini
last month, but would not confirm what transpired at that meeting with King Mswati, or at the
subsequent meeting at the airport.
In 2013, it was reported, that Zuma told the National Assembly, that he knew nothing about
the billions of dollars of Libyan money, that Gaddafi and his family were believed to have
stashed in South Africa, and neighbouring countries, during his 42-year rule.
This is after he was approached by officials from the Libyan government.
Soon after Gaddafi's death, the new Libyan government had embarked on a large-scale mission,
to recover legal, and illegal assets in South Africa, the rest of Africa, the US, and Europe.
According to the Sunday Times, when the then public protector, Thuli Madonsela, was investigating
Zuma’s Nkandla home in 2013, for her investigation of its improper security upgrades, she was
not allowed access to the bunker.
The paper reports, that authorities are now certain, that there was a lot of money hidden
in the bunker at the time.
Speculation surrounds Zuma’s alleged attempts, to convert the money into rands for his own
use, including to pay for his own legal fees, related to the arms deal corruption, which
the state, under Ramaphosa, is no longer willing to fund.
In 2014, it was revealed, that as much as 2 trillion rand, in US dollars, as well as
hundreds of tons of gold, and at least six million carats of diamonds, in assets belonging
to the people of Libya, was been kept secretly in various warehouses across the country.
This was separate from the 260 billion rand, held legally in four banks in the country.
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