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JOHANNESBURG – After two decades, the ruling party’s integrity commission will finally take on the ANC secretary general, Ace Magashule, this weekend, but his appearance may be futile, as the commission can only make recommendations to the NEC.
Magashule served as president of the ANC Free State for almost a decade before former President Jacob Zuma appointed him prime minister.
READ: Magashule will appear before the ANC Integrity Committee
It was then that the ANC hardliners allegedly secured a stake in almost all government tenders in the province and earned the nickname “Mr. Ten Percent.”
Magashule denies this and says that anyone with proof should speak up.
Magashule said: “Anyone who says I am corrupt should get this platform now and be called upon to testify. And let the South African people judge who is corrupt and who is not.”
“I think this is a very clear agenda to weaken us, to narrow the base of the ANC. It is not just about dealing with me. People have tried for many years, these days we are even afraid to drink tea, to drink water because it knows the agenda, people have tried to kill some of us. “
Last month, Magashule appeared in court to answer for the lack of oversight of one of those deals: the R220 million asbestos project.
He is now the secretary general of the ANC and wields massive influence in the organization.
The integrity commission’s recommendations on Magashule will be sent to the NEC, which will decide what to do with the report.
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This has led to questioning the effectiveness of the commission.
Magashule said, “It has been effective, they have been doing their job. You have seen when people were supposed to go to parliament, there were problems and they dealt with those issues. And the ANC managed to deal with those issues. You deal with issues not. only legally but also politically. “
It seems that the ANC NEC will decide the fate of Magashule.
