TOP STORY: Magashule plays Ace card, suspending ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Does the suspended ANC-SG, Ace Magashule (left), have the authority to suspend ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa (right) from his portfolio?  Turmoil in South African politics as this story Develops across local media platforms. [pic sourced]


DEVELOPING:  The Secretary-General (SG) for the African National Congress (ANC) has challenged his suspension through a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa; furthermore suspending the president from his role as ANC president.

 


“I herewith announce that I am immediately, and formally, appealing this unconstitutional suspension. In terms of the ANC Constitution, my suspension is thus wholly suspended, until my appeal has been heard, and it’s final outcome announced,” Magashule declared in his two page statement leaked to social media late in the evening of Wednesday, 5 May 2021.

Magashule, in the statement, additionally issued a suspension to the president.

“This is done in terms of Resolution 8.2 of the 54th National Conference, which states that, ‘Every cadre accused of, or reported to be involved in, corrupt practices accounts to the Integrity Committee immediately, or faces DC processes….,and Resolution 8.3 that further provides for the suspension of, “… people who fail to give an acceptable explanation, or to voluntarily step down while they face disciplinary, investigative or prosecutorial procedures”,” the suspended SG wrote.

 

The ANC came out in full retaliation by Thursday morning, with top party officials going so far as to refute that the suspended SG has any authority to suspend the president of the ANC, or reverse his own suspension.

ANC National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe told South African print powerhouse Mail&Guardian that Magashule acted independently of party structures through the letter.

“[Magashule] makes a decision at his home alone and writes to the president. That is not how decisions are made in an organisation,” Mantashe responded, dismissing the SG’s move as bearing ‘no consequence’ to the party.  “This is an organisation. You don’t wake up angry and take a decision and communicate it.”

In a darker response to the turn of events, ANC Veteran Mavuso Msimang told Morning Live that Magashule has “signed his death warrant, if the ANC is what I know it to be” – which could mean anything from assassination to, simply, the end of Magashule’s political career in South Africa. 

ANC national spokesperson Pule Mabe added that the letter by the SG is noted: imploring that the cadre “… respect the decisions of the NEC and subject himself to the discipline of the organisation.”



South Africans spare no quarter in voicing their opinions on social media, taking to Twitter under the #AceSuspendsCyril topic trending on the digital platform as the story develops.






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