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Elias Sekgobelo Magashule (Ace)

Date of Birth: 1959
Place of Birth: Parys, South Africa


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Meltdown in the party

By a quirk of history it fell to Ace Magashule Secretary General of the African National Congress and leading beneficiary of Jacob Zuma's leadership to deliver the most damning report on the state of the party in its history...


The party and the pendulum

The fight against Ramaphosa led by ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule close Zuma ally and former premier of the Free State is being run out of the party headquarters in Luthuli House Johannesburg...


Ace helps his allies

No sooner had Ramaphosa won the fight with pro-Zuma ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule over the independence of South Africa's central bank the SA Reserve Bank than Magashule and his allies selected some of the most corruption-tainted pro-Zuma loyalists many of whom had been dropped from the Ramaphosa cabinet as chairs of the powerful parliamentary portfolio and cabinet committees...


A tale of two ANCs

The proposal that it should be implemented along with quantitative easing measures was issued in the name of the ANC on 3 June following a meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) by party Secretary-General Ace Magashule who has been linked to corruption while Premier of Free State province (AC Vol 60 No 11 Long shadow of corruption over new order)...


The Ramaphosa relaunch

The third challenge is whether Ramaphosa will allow corruption suspects who made it onto the ANC election list at the insistence of party Secretary General Ace Magashule to retain their positions in the ANC be appointed to the cabinet or to take their seats in Parliament (AC Vol 60 No 6 ANC's not-so-clean slates)...

Ace Magashule the ANC general secretary typified the pro-Zuma position on the election when he lashed out at those saying Ramaphosa was key to the ANC's victory...


ANC split threatens campaign

Premier Leaguer and current ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule has confined his own campaigning mostly to Free State Province where he used to be Premier and has put in appearances in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal...

Zuma supporter and ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule deposited the full list of 200 candidates with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) only minutes before the deadline (AC Vol 60 No 6 ANC's not-so-clean slates)...


The real post-election fight

Case against AceExacerbating the ANC's problems is the publication of an explosive book last week detailing a catalogue of fraud and corruption allegations against Ace Magashule the ANC's Secretary-General who is the second-most powerful official in the organisation and should be the President's right-hand man...

In The Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh depicts a 'a well-organised state capture network' which operated with impunity under President Jacob Zuma and from which Zuma is said to have benefitted both politically and financially...


ANC’s not-so-clean slates

Ace Magashule the ANC Secretary-General who is regarded as a Zuma ally while paying lip-service to Ramaphosa said that anyone who had not been found guilty by a court of law was eligible to be on the ANC list...


Memo misfire

ANC headquarters remain under the control of Secretary General Ace Magashule a close ally of Zuma's...


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