'Let the Hawks do their job' - ANC on Magashule raids
Johannesburg – The national and Free State ANC branches say the law must take its course in the Vrede Dairy matter, even if it means that the party's new secretary general Ace Magashule could be implicated.
Specialised policing directorate, the Hawks, conducted search and seizure operations at outgoing Free State premier Ace Magashule’s office, as well as at the Department of Agriculture.
Magashule is to step down in March after he was elected ANC secretary general at the party's national elective conference in December.
The raids come after the National Prosecution Authority’s (NPA) Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) secured an order placing Krynaauwslust farm, near Vrede in the Free State, under curatorship.
The NPA is investigating allegations that the provincial government paid R220m to the Guptas in what the AFU labelled "a scheme designed to defraud and steal monies from the department".