ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has dismissed claims of dodgy funding in his CR17 campaign for ANC boss and described his ‘purported suspension” by suspended Secretary-General Ace Magashule as an act of ‘vindictive spite and not in the best interest of the ANC’.
It’s a short, focused 16-page affidavit President Cyril Ramaphosa has filed as part of the governing ANC’s response to suspended Secretary-General Ace Magashule’s legal action against his temporary suspension after he failed to step aside over the criminal charges he faces.
Ramaphosa’s affidavit repeatedly states support for ANC Deputy Secretary-General Jessie Duarte, who earlier filed a scathing retort to Magashule, describing his case as “absurd” and “incoherent”.
While Magashule, in his letter “suspending” him dated 3 May, but only delivered two days later, may have claimed it was over the role of money in the CR17 campaign for internal ANC leadership, Ramaphosa says in his affidavit that this was an “ill-informed distortion of the truth”.