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ANC expels former Secretary General Ace Magashule.
Ace Magashule, a former ANC secretary general, was dismissed by the ruling party for missing the deadline to object to the sanction’s confirmation by the national disciplinary committee (NDC).
The choice was made a few days after the special investigating unit (SIU) revealed that it would be looking into the bursary program that Magashule’s office ran while he was the premier of the Free State.
Phemelo Motene spoke to ANC Spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri about the party’s decision to expel former ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule.
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Bhengu-Motsiri said the party’s national disciplinary committee (NDC) made the decision because Magashule had failed to respond after he was given seven days to state why he should not be expelled.
At the party’s elective congress in December 2017, Magashule—a close supporter of the late president Jacob Zuma and the head of the so-called RET faction—was chosen to serve as secretary general.
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With the promise of a change in leadership within five years, he rallied the RET forces inside the ANC national executive committee and narrowly defeated Senzo Mchunu to win the seat.
He then led the opposition against President Cyril Ramaphosa after the conference.
Magashule, however, was arrested in November 2020 in connection with the Free State asbestos scam (a case in which he is currently free on bail), and the ANC then suspended Ramaphosa in March 2021.
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