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ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule, who also faces corruption charges, has already stated that he will not step down.
ANC SG Ace Magashule at a NEC meeting in Irene on April 1, 2019. Image: Abigail Javier / EWN
JOHANNESBURG – The African National Executive Committee (ANC) is expected to spend a day discussing integrity and morality as it seeks ways to deal with members facing criminal charges
The party’s previous resolution taken during the 2017 election conference, and reiterated recently for members facing corruption and other serious charges to stand down, has been the subject of different legal opinions, some of which say it cannot be enforced.
ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule, who also faces corruption charges, has already stated that he will not step down.
He faces corruption charges with 21 counts related to the asbestos project during his tenure as Prime Minister of the Free State.
ANC stalwart Matthews Phosa, advocates for Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, Makhudo Tshivase and Gcina Malindi are some of the legal minds who have tried to guide the ANC on how to deal with the issue of calling on implicated members to step aside.
Eyewitness news has seen at least two of the reports, and Phosa cautioned that the party’s constitution has not been amended to reflect it.
While Tshivase suggests that the party cannot ignore the rights of elected leaders by removing them whenever it wishes, Magashule told Eyewitness News that the NEC, which is the highest inter-conference decision-making body, will take up the matter.
“We all have the right to be considered innocent until a competent court proves our guilt. We are discussing this matter and I leave it to the leadership of the ANC ”.
This week, News24 reported that Malindi’s opinion said the party could ask those accused of serious crimes to withdraw as a temporary suspension.
‘NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT’
As the ANC prepares for its last NEC meeting of the year on Sunday, Magashule said he had nothing to worry about.
He said Eyewitness news He wasn’t worried, not even an inner push to expel him.
“I’m not worried at all, I shouldn’t even worry about my future. It is determined by the ANC itself. “
While there are resolutions calling for those facing serious charges to step aside, Magashule argues that the commitments made in 2017 do not replace the ANC and the country’s constitutions.
“The resolutions are there and are part of politics, the party constitution and the country’s Constitution.”
The integrity commission will also be discussed; some factions want it to be strengthened, while others argue that it is being used to oust political opponents from the leadership.
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