SUSPENDED ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule returns to court on Monday in connection with the multimillion-rand asbestos fraud case in the Free State.
Magashule and his co-accused are expected to appear in the high court in Bloemfontein on Monday and Tuesday.
Magashule is facing 21 charges of fraud and corruption related to the R225 million asbestos removal tender during his tenure as premier.
He is currently out on R200 000 bail alongside his co-accused.
“I can assure you in my life I have never been involved in corruption,” Magashule said during an interview with eNCA.
“This is a political trial. That’s why I want to be in the box. I want to be there so that South Africans know the truth, that I have been in Parliament for 25 years and I did not do anything wrong. Then suddenly in the last years of my term, I do something wrong which
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