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    AN UNDERRATED SCANDAL

    Oct 04, 2020 5 minutes
    Kay Sexwale voices@citypress.co.za
    PHOTO: PHINDULA NEWS

    It is now public knowledge that senior ANC party members secretly hitched a ride on a state jet to Zimbabwe for a meeting with the ruling Zanu-PF party last month. The lift was given by Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and they were outed by the Zimbabwean media.

    The ANC’s secretary-general Ace Magashule, the infamous and convicted criminal ANC national executive committee (NEC) member Tony Yengeni, former environmental affairs minister Nomvula Mokonyane, Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu and a few other NEC members went along for the ride.

    President Cyril Ramaphosa had given Mapisa-Nqakula permission for her official trip to Zimbabwe.

    Let’s rewind to one late night in April 2013, when a statement from the office of the then ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe was

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