Opinion
Magashule: a speedy trial will best protect our young democracy
15 November 2020 - 00:03
The appearance in court of ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule on multiple fraud, corruption and money-laundering charges holds hauntingly familiar but worrying implications for the party and the state. Magashule's arrest tears asunder a tenuous unity pact stitched together in the aftermath of a tumultuous elective ANC conference at Nasrec in 2017, when President Cyril Ramaphosa emerged with a slim victory...
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