Ace Magashule Warns of Witch Hunt Ahead of ANC Elective Conference

• Suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule believes that more arrests will come ahead of the ANC's national elective conference in December
• He said that Bathabile Dlamini case was constructed in order to remove her as leader of the ANC Women's League and replace her with someone else
• Magashule said that he knew who would be arrested next but the state did not have any evidence against them

PRETORIA - Suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule believes that the court case against Bathabile Dlamini, the president ANC Women's League (ANCWL) is an example of what is to come ahead of the ANC elective conference.

He warned that more ANC members would be arrested ahead of the conference to alter the outcome of the decision taken.

Magashule said that he had a list of all those that the government wanted to arrest and that they do not have any evidence against them according to News24.

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He added that the case against Dlamini was a move to position someone else as leader of the ANC Women's League ahead of the ANC's national conference which is scheduled to be held in December 2022.

EWN had reported earlier that Magashule had accused the ANC of manipulating sub-committees for factional reasons.

"Charge the whole ANC gang": Bathabile Dlamini found guilty of perjury

Earlier, Briefly News reported that former Minister of Social Development Bathibile Dlamini was found guilty of perjury by the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, 9 March.

During a 2017 probe into the social grants crisis in the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa), Dlamini was later accused of lying under oath, leaving millions of grant recipients wondering if they would ever receive their money.

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Magistrate Betty Khumalo who presided over the matter stated that the prosecution had proven without reasonable doubt that Dlamini did in fact lie at the inquiry.

"Favouritism towards top officials": SA reacts to Bathabile Dlamini's sentence

In similar news, the ANC Women’s League president and former Minister of Social Development, Bathabile Dlamini was sentenced to four years imprisonment or an R200 000 fine after she was found guilty of perjury.

The sentence was handed down by Judge Betty Khumalo at Johannesburg Magistrate's Court after Dlamini was found lying under oath during the Sassa grant inquiry in 2017.

Half of the sentence is suspended for five years under the condition that Dlamini is not convicted of perjury. This is the second conviction that the women's league leader faces.

Source: Briefly News