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Damaging claims of profiteering from Covid-19 contracts have split the ANC's top brass along pre-Nasrec factions, as leaders squabbled at the party's national executive committee (NEC) meeting this weekend over how to deal with corruption allegations levelled against its leaders.

The standoff in the NEC on Friday was sparked by President Cyril Ramaphosa's opening address, in which he is said to have warned the ANC executive that corruption has tarnished the party's brand.

ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule's eldest son Tshepiso's Motheko Projects received a contract for R2.29m and Tshepiso's brother Thato's Marvel Deeds scored R427,221 from the Free State treasury, according to the Daily Maverick. Siweya's cousin, Hlulani Siweya, was awarded contracts by the Limpopo health department to deliver face shields and heavy-duty surgical gloves through her company, Rebantle Trading & Projects.

Magashule came under fire in the NEC meeting for comments he made in an interview with 24-hour news network Newzroom Afrika last month.

 

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