Riyaz Patel
Former Free State Premier Ace Magashule pocketed R10 million in kickbacks for helping to facilitate a R255 million asbestos audit project, former Economic Development MEC Mxolisi Dukwana told the state capture inquiry Wednesday.
Dukwana identified Magashule along with several politicians and senior government officials who allegedly unlawfully benefitted from the project.
“I submit that the involvement of Mr Magashule in this asbestos audit heist makes him unfit to hold public office or the office of the SG of the ANC,” he said.
Dukwana told Deputy Chief Justice Justice Raymond Zondo that Magashule and all those who allegedly “aided and abetted the heist should be behind bars.”
“To date, no eradication of asbestos roofs has been carried out in any townships in the Free State … and yet R255m had been advanced to the Blackhead Consulting joint venture and R77m of state funds is a subject of litigation in our courts,
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