How to capture a province: New book lays bare Ace Magashule’s Free State fiefdom via dailymaverick
convincingly makes the case that Ace Magashule is not just corrupt – deeply, spectacularly corrupt – but also potentially dangerous.
When Myburgh went looking for the relevant police record, he found it had gone missing – as have the records from a 2008 judicial inquiry into Ngombane’s murder. Magashule became ANC provincial chair in 2002, but Myburgh records that his dubious history pre-dates that election. A number of Magashule’s supposed comrades from that era told Myburgh they had never heard of him before the unbanning of the ANC.
To give one example: Before Mangaung in 2012, ANC Free State had “somehow recruited almost 45 000 new Free State members in just six months” – which enabled the province to send more delegates to the ANC’s electoral conference. Myburgh was informed by several sources that there were effectively no tender processes followed to determine which companies got contracts to build houses – instead, Magashule hand picked the favoured companies.
Writes Myburgh: “While [Magashule’s] daughter’s company made millions, these people are now left with substandard houses and no water, flushing toilets or electricity”.
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