Will KZN support Magashule for ANC presidency?
A FEW weeks ago, an insightful quote attributed to renowned Kenyan scholar Patrick Lumumba, who is a former director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, went viral.
“In Japan a corrupt person kills himself. In China, they kill him. In Europe they jail him. In Africa he presents himself for election,” read the quote, at about the time ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule has been touted to vie for an ANC presidency at the governing party’s national conference in December 2022.
Magashule has been charged with several counts of corruption, fraud, and money-laundering that relate to a R255 million asbestos-roofing government contract in the Free State, where he served as premier between 2009 and 2018. As a result, he has been given a 30-day period to step aside in line with a party position on members – and leaders – who have been implicated in and/or charged with wrongdoings.
