ANC NEC member Bheki Cele has launched a blistering attack on the party’s secretary-general‚ Ace Magashule‚ and has accused him of destroying the party by saying it introduced him to the Gupta family. Addressing an ANC rally in Vryheid in northern KwaZulu-Natal to celebrate the ANC’s 106th birthday on Saturday‚ Cele said Magashule had said he was introduced to the Gupta family by the ANC when newly-elected NEC leaders were introducing themselves. "There is one who said he was introduced by the ANC to the Guptas and he happened to be the SG. I have never met a person who was introduced to the Guptas by the ANC. Ace Magashule says he was introduced by the ANC to the Guptas. "I see why we are going to have a problem. And the problem is going to be that the Guptas have a stranglehold on us. So there is one who was taken on a tray to the Guptas but he does not say what his programme is but now we are beginning to suspect that his programme is to destroy the ANC‚" said Cele. He also lashe...
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