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Prasa will probe chair Leonard Ramatlakane’s move into swanky company home

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It is understood the board was not aware Ramatlakane was staying in the Prasa-owned house and that it was never informed as it should have been, even as a courtesy

The Prasa house in Newlands where board chair Leonard Ramatlakane is staying while his house is being renovated. Picture: RUVAN BOSHOFF.

This follows an exclusive story in the Sunday Times in which the newspaper reported Ramatlakane and his family had moved into the Prasa property in the expensive Cape Town suburb. The house, which cost taxpayers R2.5m to renovate over the past two years, was supposed to have been used by Prasa executives when they visited Cape Town on business.

Insiders at Prasa have said Ramatlakane’s rental of the property had caused “suspicions of favouritism” and that the deal was not above board.

 

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