Ace Magashule

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Ace Magashule (2016)

Elias Sekgobelo "Ace" Magashule (* 1959 in Tumahole near Parys , Orange Free State ) is a South African politician ( African National Congress ). He was Prime Minister of the Free State Province from 2009 to 2018 and has been Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC) since 2017.

Life

Magashule attended the University of Fort Hare , from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts . During this time he played soccer and was nicknamed Ace (German: "Ass"). In 1979 he was a founding member of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS). In 1982 he was charged with treason and later imprisoned several times under the Internal Security Act , including nine months in solitary confinement in 1985 . He has taught at Sebokeng High School and Phehellang High School in Parys. Politically, he was influenced by Chris Hani and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela . He was involved in the United Democratic Front and in 1991 first took up leadership positions at the regional level at the ANC. He soon became Provincial Chairman of the ANC for the Provincial Free State and remained so for longer than any other ANC Provincial Chairman . In 2008 he was elected to the ANC's National Executive Committee . After 2004 he worked in numerous departments of the provincial administration, including agriculture; he was also Chief Whip of the Provincial Parliament.

In May 2009 he replaced Beatrice Marshoff as Prime Minister of the Free State.

Magashule is considered a supporter of the former President Jacob Zuma . He was convicted twice by courts of party irregularities. He was accused of favoring his own company in business for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. The court case was closed; an application for resumption is pending. In 2015, he was criticized for buying Mercedes-Benz cars for six traditional heads of state; he himself received a Mercedes-Benz 222 series for 2.3 million rand from public funds .

In March 2017, it was said that he had illegally awarded public contracts to befriended entrepreneurs.

His son Tshepiso Magashule was employed in a company belonging to the Gupta family from 2010 . Among other things, he was given long-distance travel. In return, the Guptas were given access to resources from the provincial government led by Ace Magashule.

On December 18, 2017, Magashule won the election as ANC General Secretary against Senzo Mchunu , who had served as Prime Minister of KwaZulu-Natal from 2013 to 2016 with 50.3% of the vote - with a lead of 24 delegate votes . However, 68 votes were missing from the result of the vote. He was succeeded by Sisi Ntombela (ANC) as Prime Minister on March 27, 2018 .

In March 2019, a book was published about Magashule, in which he was accused of working with the Gupta family during his time as prime minister. In April of the same year, before the Zondo Commission to investigate the scandal surrounding the Gupta family, he was accused of having received one million rand each from Rajesh Gupta for a long time, for example to get the group to start building the planned City of Tomorrow in the district Lejweleputswa to enable.

In the wake of the 2019 elections, it will investigate whether Magashule was involved in the founding of several opposition parties to support former President Jacob Zuma (also ANC) against incumbent President Cyril Ramaphosa . This should include the African Transformation Movement and Black First Land First .

Honors

In 2017 Magashule received an honorary doctorate from the Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul .

literature

  • Pieter-Louis Myburgh: Gangster state - unraveling Magashule's web of capture. Penguin, Cape Town 2019, ISBN 9781776093748 .

Web links

  • CV on the ANC website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e CV on the website of the Province of Free State (English), accessed on December 21, 2017
  2. ↑ Magashule and Mabuza represent 'very opposite of where ANC needs to go': analyst. timeslive.co.za from December 18, 2017
  3. ↑ amaBhungane: Dodgy World Cup deal comes back to bite Free State premier Ace Magashule. Daily Maverick, November 28, 2017, accessed December 20, 2017
  4. ↑ amaBhungane and Scorpio: DA: Magashule's R2.3m Merc purchase screams banana republic. Mail & Guardian dated December 29, 2015, accessed December 21, 2017
  5. ↑ amaBhungane: Jobs for pals in the Free State - Ace Magashule's playground. Daily Maverick, March 7, 2017, accessed December 20, 2017
  6. ^ Pieter-Louis Myburgh: Rumors of dodgy deals plague Mabuza, Magashule. news24.com of December 19, 2017 (English), accessed December 20, 2017
  7. ↑ amaBhungane and Scorpio: GuptaLeaks: the gift did keeps on giving. ewn.co.za on June 5, 2017, accessed December 20, 2017
  8. ↑ Siviwe Breakfast: No end in sight of the case of the 'missing' delegates. thesouthafrican.com, December 22, 2017, accessed December 23, 2017
  9. ↑ Gupta sent Ace and Duduzane R1mn a month - Dukwane. Mail & Guardian of April 5, 2019 (English), accessed April 5, 2019
  10. ↑ Natasha Marrian: Fight against Magashule builds steam. Mail & Guardian dated June 14, 2019, accessed August 11, 2019
  11. ↑ Jenna Etheridge: Free State welcomes 'Dr Ace' after premier awarded an honorary doctorate. news24.com of October 1, 2017 (English), accessed December 20, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Magashule, Ace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Magashule, Elias Sekgobelo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician (African National Congress)
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Tumahole near Parys , Orange Free State