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The ruling party’s national spokesman, Pule Mabe, held an impromptu briefing with the media on Tuesday to address inquiries about the results contained in the leaked integrity commission document.
FILE: ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule at an NEC meeting in Irene on April 1, 2019. Image: Abigail Javier / EWN
JOHANNESBURG – The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC) will only deal with the report of its integrity commission to Secretary General Ace Magashule when the New Year meets.
The ruling party’s national spokesperson, Pule Mabe, held an impromptu briefing with the media on Tuesday to address inquiries about the results contained in the leaked document.
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Magashule met with the integrity commission after his arrest in November. He has faced charges of fraud and corruption since his time as Prime Minister of the Free State.
While he had previously refused to step aside, Magashule told the integrity commission that he would do so if asked by the NEC.
The ANC has numerous steps to take to air the commission’s report. It must go through the top six officials, the national working committee (NWC) and then the NEC, the party’s highest decision-making body between conferences.
Mabe explained that it might not even be the end.
“The members of the ANC, regardless of the positions they hold in the organization, have all the rights of affiliation. This includes filing or raising your appeals, ”he said.
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While Mabe argued that there was nothing urgent in the leaked report and that it would be addressed in 2021, commentators such as Lawson Naidoo of SA’s Council for the Advancement of the Constitution (Casac) believe that this is a life and death moment for him. ANC. .
“If the NEC does not implement this resolution, it would be a very, very dark day for the ANC,” Naidoo said.
Magashule has yet to make its views public, but some of its supporters have already launched an attack on the integrity commission’s credibility.
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