Magashule: I am prepared to testify at Zondo commission
The secretary-general of the African National Congress (ANC), Ace Magashule, says he is more than wiling to testify at the commission of inquiry into state capture.
Magashule delived a lecture to members of the South African Students' Congress (Sasco) in Bloemfontein on Friday.
"I am prepared to go to that commission if I am so implicated," Magashule told the students. "I want to go there, I want to know. Because if one goes there one can actually relate many other stories."
Magashule was premier of the Free State at the time of the controversial Estina diary farm project in Vrede, through which millions of rands that was allocated to the farm were allegedly diverted to the Gupta family.
He has also been implicated in a plot to oust President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Last week, the Sunday Times reported that Magashule, ANC Women’s League president Meokgo Matuba, former North West premier Supra Mahumapelo and other ANC officials met with former president Jacob Zuma at a hotel in Durban.
The meeting allegedly discussed a plot to remove Ramaphosa.
But Magashule told the students there there is no truth to the reports.
"Nobody can stop me from meeting President Zuma. In fact I will even invite President Zuma to come and talk to you as students of Cosas. I am not going to plot against anybody. There is no time to plot against the ANC leadership."