Council is stalling holding sitting to debate motion of no confidence in Ace Magashule, DA says
DA Free State leader Roy Jankielsohn says Magashule must be held accountable for the corruption taking place in the Free State government, and it is not up to the ANC to just redeploy him
The DA in the Free State has accused the authorities in the provincial legislature of dragging their feet over a request by the party for an urgent sitting so that its motion of no confidence in premier Ace Magashule could be debated and voted on.It was during Magashule’s reign that the province channelled R220m into failed dairy farm project Estina in Vrede, with much of the money finding its way into the hands of the Gupta family.DA provincial leader in the Free State Roy Jankielsohn said in a statement on Wednesday that he had written to the speaker of the Free State provincial legislature, Mamiki Qabathe, and chief whip Neels van Rooyen, about the no-confidence debate. But the two seemed to be "deliberately stalling" on the matter.Qabathe said she had referred the matter to the chief whips committee to consider the process to be followed for a motion of no confidence to be heard as there is no provision in the legislature’s standing rules and orders for such motions.The DA asked...
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