THE Hawks have secured a warrant of arrest for ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule.
The arrest warrant is in connection with the Free State asbestos audit contract valued at R255 million.
Magashule is expected to appear in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Friday, according to the Hawks Free State spokesperson Captain Lynda Steyn.
Magashule said on Tuesday while campaigning in Soweto for Wednesday’s by-elections that he’s not aware of the arrest warrant by the Hawks.
“If it happens then it happens but I am not worried at all because I know I have not done anything wrong, as a law-abiding citizen of South Africa,” Magashule told the media.
Former Free State Social Economic Development MEC Mxolisi Dukwana said the ANC in the Free State welcomes the issuance of the warrant of arrest for Magashule.
Dukwana said Magashule should now step aside in line with the ANC’s resolution on corruption, which
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