SUSPENDED ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule has been booted out of the party’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting after key allies of President Cyril Ramaphosa raised concerns about his participation.
A defiant Magashule said he was taken aback by his removal from the NEC virtual meeting because he is still the Secretary-General of the party following his appeal of the decision to suspend him earlier this week.
“I organized the ANC NEC meeting. The meeting was convened by me but because we were on Zoom I was just switched off,” Magashule told the media afterwards.
ANC MP Bongani Bongo, who is facing criminal charges, was also kicked out of the virtual meeting.
The supporters of Magashule and Bongo argued that two party senior leaders remained in their position.
Bongo and the co-accused appeared briefly before the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court to face 69 charges including fraud, corruption and theft. The charges
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