Dukwana: Magashule belongs in jail
Former Free State MEC for Economic Development Mxolisi Dukwana says African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Ace Magashule is not fit to hold public office or any position in the governing party.
Dukwana concluded his testimony at the commission of inquiry into state capture in Parktown on Wednesday.
He claims Magashule and others looted R255 million in state funds from the Department of Human Settlements in the Free State during his term as premier.
Dukwana said the money was stolen through an unsolicited project which was meant to remove asbestos roofing from 300 000 houses in the province. However, the money was paid to a company called Blackhead Consulting JV.
"I submit that the involvement of Mr. Magashule in this 'asbestos audit heist' makes him unfit to hold public office or the office of the SG of the ANC. His suitable place of abode in public is a jail cell. If our law enforcement agencies were well-oiled, Mr. Magashule and all those who aided and abetted this project should be doing time in jail."
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He said to date no eradication of asbestos roofs has been carried in any township in the Free State.
Dukwana furnished the commission with emails between Magashule's office, the director of Blackhead Consulting JV, Ignatius Mpambani, who is now deceased, and a former acting judge at the Bloemfontein High Court Refilwe Mokoena.
The emails detail how the funds meant for the project were transferred across the three, with some of the money paying for Mokoena's daughter's school fees at a college in the United States.
"An inference can be drawn that each time payment was advanced to Blackhead Consulting JV by the Free State Department of housing, Magashule's PA's would be informed and both would inform Mr. Magashule, followed by a request from him to Mr. Mpamabani, who would then make payments as requested by Mr. Magashule,” Dukwana said.