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The top leadership of South Africa’s ruling party excluded its suspended Secretary-General Ace Magashule from a meeting on Saturday, confirming the sidelining of one of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s biggest detractors.
Magashule was ordered to vacate his post after he ignored an order by the African National Congress (ANC) to step aside while he faces trial on graft charges. He denied any wrongdoing, said the decision to discipline him was invalid and notified party leader Ramaphosa that he was the one being suspended for violating campaign funding rules.
Magashule joined an online meeting of the ANC’s National Executive Committee, the party’s top leadership
structure, in defiance of its instruction to refrain from participating in its activities, according to people with knowledge of the matter.