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Police Minister Senzo Mchunu.
ANC Secretary-General, Fikile Mbalula says Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, who is on special leave, will not step aside from ANC duties. He was speaking on the sidelines of the ANC National Working Committee meeting, currently underway in Cape Town.
The ANC National Working Committe (NWC) is assessing the structures of the ANC in the Western Cape.
Mchunu is in attendance despite being placed on special leave from his role in government.
Mbalula says the step aside rule only applies to people who are criminally charged.
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“The President has put Senzo aside with immediate effect. Argue the question of how that has happened but he is aside. We’ve got an acting minister who is chairing the meeting here inside, and I have explained to you and I am repeating it again that Senzo will not step aside in relation to the ANC. He is an elected member and he’s got an opportunity now in terms of the Audi Alteram Partem principle [to also state as his side of the story.] Now, once we listen to that, it is also evaluated in terms of fact by a competent independent judge and a panel judicial commission that the president has appointed. Then we can pass judgment. Let’s allow the process to follow,” says Mbalula.
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Mbalula also appears unfazed by the Constitutional Court challenge by the MK Party against President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to place under-fire Mchunu on special leave.
Mchunu is accused of political interference by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.
Mbalula was speaking on the sidelines of the ANC National Working Committee (NWC) meeting underway in Cape Town,
“What the president has done to process the allegations that were made is the correct thing to do by a sitting president in a constitutional democracy. That’s what we, as the ANC, support. What has been raised by the General is now receiving full attention and is being attended to,” says Mbalula.
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