Magashule was suspended as secretary-general in 2021 after being indicted on several counts of corruption, money laundering and fraud. He was suspended in accordance with the ANC’s “withdrawal” policy, which requires others in leadership positions to resign from their positions while confronting thieves. Charges
Magashule refused to resign and even published a letter saying he was postponing the office of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the head of the ANC. His defiance and refusal to apologize for the letter led to him being accused of misconduct through the ANC’s Disciplinary Committee.
Magashule discovered the culprits of 4 breaches of party rules through the National Disciplinary Committee and gave it seven days to respond to the findings, the ANC said. He did not respond, the party said.
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“As a result, the NDC has shown the expulsion of comrade Ace Magashule from the ANC as a maximum sanction,” the party said on Monday.
Magashule is considered to be close to Ramaphosa’s political rival, former President Jacob Zuma, but his suspension left him out of the ANC convention in December when Ramaphosa was re-elected as party leader.
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Magashule, 63, faces fraudulent charges for allegedly profiting from cash intended to remove asbestos from people’s homes in the Free State province, where he served as prime minister from 2009 to 2018.
His co-defendants in this case come from businessmen with close ties to the ANC and former officials of the Free State provincial government, which he headed at the time.
Last month, Magashule filed an appeal to have South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal strip him of the fees he was opposed.
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Zuma also faces primary corruption charges similar to an arms deal signed by the South African government in 1999 worth more than a billion dollars. The charges relate to an era before Zuma’s presidency, but when he was a burgeoning politician within the ANC.
The cases opposed to Zuma and Magashule are seen as being at the forefront of Ramaphosa’s push to root out corruption within the ruling party and government of Africa’s most industrialized economy, and corruption is believed to have become widespread during Zuma’s presidency from 2009 to 2018.
However, Ramaphosa became embroiled in his own scandal after being accused of violating foreign currency regulations and failing to disclose the theft of a giant amount of US dollar cash he kept at his ranch.