Step-aside deadline: Will Ace Magashule follow through or will he stay?
Ace Magashule should have already packed up the things in his office and vacated the space after the ANC s national executive committee (NEC) gave all party leaders and members facing criminal charges 30 days to step aside or face suspension.
Instead Magashule, who is facing serious criminal charges relating to the Free State s R255 million asbestos audit project, is not giving in without a fight.
First he tried to widen the scope of the ANC s decision to include anyone accused of wrongdoing. When that failed, he decided to approach the courts.
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Ramaphosa at the Zondo commission: Burning questions he needs to answer
President Cyril Ramaphosa will appear at the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into State Capture in his capacity as president of the ANC next week. He will return to the inquiry in May to testify as head of state as well his tenure as deputy president of the country under Zuma.
Earlier this month, ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe appeared at the inquiry on behalf of the party, which has been heavily implicated in state capture. Mantashe s testimony proved why the inquiry needs to turn its focus on the ANC.
The Zondo commission has been looking into state capture while Zuma was president. This includes the former president s relationship with the infamous Gupta family, who came onto the country s radar in 2013, when it was revealed that they had been allowed to land an aircraft at Waterkloof Air Force Base for guests attending a wedding at Sun City.
The last couple of weeks have seen the judiciary in the wars.
With the continuing saga around errant Cape Judge President John Hlophe in the background, and former president Jacob Zuma s assault on the courts continuing unabated, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) sat this week to consider various vacancies on the bench.
But the sitting, led by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, gave a worrying insight into how the country s judges are selected. Mogoeng – whose Nkandla judgment in 2016 increasingly seems to be an outlier – threw himself into the political arena, first by ostensibly attacking his colleagues of the Appellate Division in Bloemfontein, and then appearing to accuse Pravin Gordhan of impropriety. This was, of course, seized on by Julius Malema, who sits on the JSC by dint of his position as a Member of Parliament. The EFF leader never misses an opportunity to grandstand, and this week s JSC proceedings were no different. For the JSC, usually singularly focused on jud
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