ANC MP and NEC member Bongani Bongo is set to step aside from all his positions in Parliament and within the party as part of the governing party’s resolution on members who are criminally charged before the courts.
This comes after the NEC resolved over the weekend at an explosive meeting that all those who were criminally charged had to step aside from all their organisational and government posts pending the finalisation of their prosecutions.
The recent alleged looting of Covid-19 relief funds through tender corruption has led to serious criticism of the governing party, with the ANC being accused of being lenient towards those implicated within its own ranks. It is unclear how Bongo and other political leaders occupying positions with the state will be able to take indefinite leave without resigning as they await the verdicts on their prosecutions with some of these cases having dragged on for years.
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