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South Africa: By Enforcing the Step-Aside Rule, the ANC Has Taken the First Step Towards Becoming a Political Party
Daily Maverick, 16 May 2021
The current collision between the 'two ANCs' is a clash between the provincial 'homeland' mentality of the RET faction versus the impulses of Cyril Ramaphosa's modernisation… Read more »
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South Africa: Suspended Ruling Party Secretary General to Challenge Decision in Court - Reports
allAfrica, 14 May 2021
Suspended African National Congress secretary-general Ace Magashule is taking the ANC to court over his suspension, South African media are reporting. Read more »
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South Africa: Ramaphosa Appears - Finally - to Have A Grip On Ruling ANC
The Conversation Africa, 13 May 2021
If the outcomes of the most recent meeting of the national executive committee (NEC) of South Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), are anything to go by,… Read more »
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South Africa: Ace Trapped in a Vice of His Own Making
Daily Maverick, 10 May 2021
The decisions of the ANC NEC, as announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday, appear to mark a crucial defeat for the party's suspended Secretary-General Ace Magashule. Read more »
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South Africa: By Trying to Suspend Ramaphosa, Magashule Played His Panic Card
Daily Maverick, 9 May 2021
The governing party leadership battle is coming to a head, with this weekend's National Executive Committee meeting expected to rubber-stamp the National Working Committee's… Read more »
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South Africa: Power Politics - Ace Magashule's Theatrics Are Just the Opening Salvo in a Long and Dirty War
Daily Maverick, 6 May 2021
The political games have not ended and Ace Magashule and his compatriots will be working hard to reclaim ground by securing branches and manoeuvring across the country to solidify… Read more »
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South Africa: Underwhelming Support for Suspended Ace Magashule Indicates a Man Running Out of Options
Daily Maverick, 6 May 2021
Few of ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule's supporters have publicly come to his defence after he was suspended by the party, but his real level of support can only be measured… Read more »
South Africa's Magashule Seeks Legal Challenge Against Suspension
Suspended African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Ace Magashule is taking the ANC to court over his suspension, South African media are reporting. News24's Carien du Plessis reports that Magashule is arguing that Rule 25.70 in the ruling party's constitution is unconstitutional. "News24 has reliably learnt the papers were served on Thursday [May 13, 2021] and are set to be lodged in court on Friday on a semi-urgent basis, and that advocate Dali Mpofu is acting on his behalf," News24 says.
The move challenges a party decision to suspend members facing serious criminal charges and who refuse to step down. The ANC resolved at its 2017 national conference that any representative (elected or employed) who was criminally charged should step aside. Magasghule faces several corruption-related charges in connection with contracts the Free State provincial government awarded during his time as premier.
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South Africa's ruling African National Congress has suspended its Secretary-General Ace Magashule. This comes after the party elected to suspend members facing serious criminal ... Read more »
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The African National Congress's (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting has ended with an announcement that Secretary-General Ace Magashule has been given 30 days to step ... Read more »
