[WATCH] Trevor Manuel: Where is the money Magashule?
Former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has slammed the African National Congress' (ANC) Secretary-General Ace Magashule for his failure to remodel the home of the late struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in the Free State.
"He says everybody knows the money didn't disappeared, where is the money that was budgeted for," asked an enraged Manuel.
He addressed a memorial service at the St George's Cathedral in Cape Town on Thursday night.
Eleven years has lapsed since the money was made available to the Free State government to turn Mam' Winnie's home into a museum.
Magashule stepped down as Premier of the province earlier this month, after his election to the ANC's top leadership structure.
According to Manual, R3 million was set aside to restore the home but "what does he want to do? Does he want to gold plate the window frames? Does he want to put in a jacuzzi?."
The City Press reported in 2017 that a resident in the area said "I was happy [thinking] that the museum project was going to end all criminal activities at this house. But at the rate things are going, someone will soon get killed or die from drugs there."
"He now informs us that this minuscule project, to restore the house to which our mother was banished, took eleven years and can't get done."
Visuals courtesy of the South African Broadcasting Corporation.