{"id":447502,"date":"2020-11-10T15:27:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T13:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=447502"},"modified":"2020-11-11T06:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T04:59:50","slug":"arrest-warrant-issued-for-anc-secretary-general-ace-magashule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/447502\/arrest-warrant-issued-for-anc-secretary-general-ace-magashule\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest warrant issued for ANC secretary general Ace Magashule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An arrest warrant has been issued for Ace Magashule, secretary-general of South Africa&#8217;s ruling African National Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Magashule is one of the top six officials of the governing party and is the ANC&#8217;s secretary-general.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2020-11-10-arrest-warrant-issued-for-anc-sg-ace-magashule-over-free-state-asbestos-saga\/\">Daily Maverick<\/a><\/strong> reported that Magashule is set to be arrested and charged over his alleged role in the Free State\u2019s R255 million asbestos audit contract.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that some of the charges relate to payments made to certain third parties with the proceeds of the contract, allegedly on Magashule\u2019s instruction.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Lynda Steyn of the Hawks confirmed the warrant of arrest to Newsroom Afrika as part of a serious corruption investigation in the Free State.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The (warrant of arrest) was only signed today by the department of public prosecutions and given back to the investigating officer to be served on Friday,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The investigation had to be complete before (an) arrest was made. The Hawks must complete the investigation first, and if there is enough evidence to convict such person, then a warrant of arrest will be issued.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steyn said that the Hawks were confident that it has enough evidence for a conviction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The corruption unit in the Free State has been working day and night on this issue and there is enough evidence at this stage to have a warrant of arrest issued,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ChZsBrqpxok\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Magashule told reporters on Tuesday that he was &#8220;not worried&#8221; by news reports that an arrest warrant had been issued for him, and said he had done nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kFJACVuSzfA\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/447350\/south-africas-public-sector-pay-has-soared-but-productivity-has-declined-analysts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Africa\u2019s public sector pay has soared \u2013 but productivity has declined: analysts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An arrest warrant has been issued for Ace Magashule, secretary-general of South Africa&#8217;s ruling African National Congress, the Daily Maverick reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":144959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-447502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447534,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447502\/revisions\/447534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}