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Regarding other states on the continent, Ramaphosa said SA would continue to raise issues of a good governance and legislative nature.
“So this has clearly given us an opportunity to look at ourselves, but also to play an advocacy role in relation to the various other sister countries on the continent.
“We are, therefore, as part of the 15 countries on our continent that sit on the UN financial ministers’ committee, opening up discussions on this matter because as we improve governance on our continent, this is one area which we all need to pay attention to.”
In its advocacy role, SA would push to have other African countries removed from the list, he said.
“Our minister of finance (Enoch Godongwana) sits on that AU committee and their discussions have started gravitating towards that direction. So we are going to be focusing on the issues that have been raised by the Financial Action Task Force so all of us can get out of that group of countries that are greylisted.”
Ramaphosa added that the 15th Brics summit, due to take place from August 22 to 24, would be preceded by a state visit from one of the bloc’s leaders.
Due to diplomatic discussions, however, he could not divulge who it would be.
“We are still finalising those discussions at a diplomatic level. Have you polished up your Russian?” quipped Ramaphosa to Steenhuisen.
On the matter, Hlengwa said: “It’s quite telling that you won’t tell us. It’s because you are in a diplomatic quadrium because of what is going on. I bet my last dollar it’s Russia.”
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