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By IOL Reporter 
9h ago
Cape Town – President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement that ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule will stand before the party’s “toothless” Integrity Commission on December 12 has been met with derision by DA leader John Steenhuisen.
Commenting on the decision after a lengthy meeting of the ANC’s national executive committee, Steenhuisen said in a statement Tuesday that “this was simply not good enough,” labeling Magashule “one of the most corrupt cadres in the ANC.” with the established Integrity Commission. to preside over nothing more than an “elaborately staged pantomime.”
He said it is a “cowardly maneuver that proves that the president is too weak to take decisive action against the most corrupt in his party, opting once again to elect the ANC over South Africa, bowing to his comrades and the voters.”
Magashule received a 200,000 rand bond from the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court last month after appearing on corruption, fraud and money laundering charges related to a 255 million rand Free State asbestos audit project tender. .
Three months ago, Ramaphosa had promised, in light of the ANC’s large-scale corruption related to the acquisition of Covid-19 personal protective equipment, that all ” cadres of the movement who are formally accused of corruption or other Serious crimes must be withdrawn immediately. of all leadership positions in the ANC, legislatures and other government structures awaiting the completion of their cases.
Steenhuisen noted that Magashule has not stepped aside or been suspended.
” President Ramaphosa’s promises to eradicate corruption are empty, and the line he has drawn in the sand has completely disappeared. This is a slap in the face to South Africans who deserve justice for the theft of their money and livelihoods by the ANC.
” We know that the ANC’s Integrity Commission is totally and utterly ineffective, and simply functions as a veil of justice for those whom the president and the ANC are too scared to have charged and imprisoned in a court of law for their crimes against the country.
In early October, the disgraced former Ethekwini mayor Zandile Gumede, who was removed from office last year amid a litany of rand 400 million corruption charges, appeared before the Integrity Commission with her lawyer. in tow. Since then there has been no news of any action against him for his crimes.
It would appear that the ANC treats the Integrity Commission as a de facto tribunal where the judges are sympathetic comrades of the ANC presiding over cases that must be heard in an independent and impartial South African court of law that requires a series of criminal charges. This is not justice, it is simply the ANC’s representation of justice at the expense of our country.
” The district attorney will not accept the ANC’s elaborately staged pantomime in which comrades are placed on a stage and slapped on the wrist for South Africans to see and applaud.
“I will only be applauding when the President has the guts to throw his companions into a cell for acts of treason committed against our country. South Africa deserves no less. ”
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