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Ace Magashule has welcomed the fraud, corruption and money laundering charges against him, as his trail will finally prove his innocence and vindicate him.
Defendant number 13 faces 21 charges along with 12 co-defendants and was granted bail of 200,000 rand in Bloemfontein Magistrates Court on Friday.
The former Prime Minister of the Free State and current Secretary General of the ANC, in an interview with eNCA, insisted that he had never acted corruptly.
“It’s good that this happened (his arrest and tracing) because then I can show the South African public that I am not corrupt,” he said.
“I welcome the charges.”
Made-up charges
Magashule said the charges were part of a larger conspiracy against him and the ANC.
“I will expose how some of the false charges have been fabricated,” he said, adding that it was part of an agenda to “reduce the ANC’s base.”
He also alluded to the poisoning of members of the ANC during the interview.
“They do not want people like us to defend the cause, above all, of blacks in general and of Africans in particular.”
Magashule said that blacks and Africans are being marginalized and that “everything is going to stop the oppressor.”
“We don’t have land, we don’t have properties, we don’t own anything.”
The former prime minister added that he was unfazed by the news that his former personal assistant, Moroadi Cholota, has become a state witness.
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“She must say what she knows and that will be fine,” he said, adding that evidence must be presented in court.
When asked if he would step aside if requested by the ANC National Executive Committee, he reiterated that this would only happen if the party powers demanded it.
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