South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is fighting back after being politically wounded by allegations that he stashed a huge sum of foreign currency in a sofa on his game farm and then covered up its theft.
He has rallied his governing African National Congress (ANC) to back him in Parliament, while his high-powered legal team is seeking to annul the damning findings against him by a panel of legal experts in the biggest scandal to rock his presidency.
Ramaphosa's accuser is former spy chief Arthur Fraser, whose allegations against the president appear to be straight out of a John le Carré novel - except that they are contained in statements he made to law enforcement agencies, and have been included in the panel's report, which parliament is set to debate next week.