ANC General Secretary Fikile Mbalula re-affirmed the stance of the organisation when it comes to corruption, during the ANC’s NGC that took place in Boksburg in Johannesburg from Monday and ended on Friday there is no place for corrupt leaders in the party.

Barely hours after ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa closed the 7th NGC meeting, two ANC seniors leaders Raymond Nchane Moraile who is the Regional Secretary and Peter Phaswana Lehong who is the member of the mayoral council for Public Safety and Ward 2 in Madibeng Local Municipality from Bojanala Region in the North West were arrested in Menylyn in Pretoria last night.

Moraile and Lehong were arrested by the Hawks are facing the charges of extortion.

It is alleged that Moraila and Lehong and their driver abandoned the closing day of the NGC to attend a meeting with a contractor whom they wanted to extort a sum of R300 000 in Menylyn Main Shopping centre.

According to reliable sources within the North West ANC, Moraila, Lehong and their driver Menzi Mgangi were caught in an operation by the Hawks after they had reassured the businesman a tender to be appointed with 15 contractors for hiring plant and equipment at Madibeng Local Municipality over a 36-month period.

Sources claim that the pair asked the contractor to deliver R300 000 hard cash personally to them not knowing that there was a trap set up by the Hawks.

“They thought they had scored a jackpot and it something that has been going on for a while where they influence tenders to be awarded to their preferred candidates for a certain amount. They totally disregarded the ANC mandate of renewal and this comes with huge embarassment not to the North West ANC but to the ANC as the organisation,” the first source said.

Another source said that this was an embarassment to the North West ANC as the ANC ‘s January 8 Celebration will be held in the province.

“Bojanala is the biggest Region and this is the huge embarassment. They must consider their careers as members of the organisation as history if they will be found guilty. They will not escape this one. These ones are gone, now Bojanala Region must cleansed itself and prove that not all members from the top structures are corrupt,” another source said.

When the North West ANC Spokesperson, Tumelo Maruping was contacted for comment, he said they are not aware about the matter.

“Kindly note that, we are yet to receive a formal report on this matter. So far we only saw it on social networks. We will put across our position once the story is clarified,” Maruping said.

Hawks Spokesperson, Katlego Mogale confirmed the incident.

“Three suspects aged 39, 40 and 42 including a Ward Councillor, a driver and member of a political party from Madibeng Municipality in Brits were are expected in court following their arrest at Menlyn on Thursday by the Anti-Corruption Investigation, Head Office of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI).

“The trio were arrested in an intelligence driven operation after they demanded a gratification amounting to R300,000-00 from a local businessman, in exchance for the awarding of a tender, which was advertised by the Madibeng Municipality during November 2025.,” she said.

Mogale said that it is alleged that the complainant was contacted by one of the suspects inquiring if the businessman was interested in being assisted to secure a tender.

“The trio is reported to have arranged a meeting with the businessman wherein they discussed the amount to exchange hands. The law abiding businessman then reported the matter to the Serious Corruption Investigation who in turn obtained the necessary documents to set up an operation,” she said.

When Ramaphosa was delivering the political overview report, he stressed about the quality of cadres and pointing out that corruption was the biggest challenge in the the organisation.

National spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri defended the ANC saying that it was individuals that were corrupt not the ANC.

“I always say that if the ANC was a corrupt party, not individuals we would not be poor. We would be tapping into the resources of the state as a governing party. We insist that the ANC is not a corrupt organisation. Individuals found to be involved in corrupt activities must face the full might of the law,” she said.

All three will be appearing in the Pretoria Magistrates court (Friday) today.

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Zuma is alleged to have travelled to Russia at the end of September to try and intervene in the matter relating to 17 people that were lured to join the Ukraine-Russia war.

According to close sources within the Zuma family in Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), the is not well between the Zuma’s in Nkandla.

This comes after it has emrged that three of the 17 people are from the Zuma family and they are related to the fired former president African National Congress (ANC).

Over the past weekend the Hawks arrested five people including the SAfm Radio Presenter Nonkululeko Mantula (39).

Other co-accused are Thulani Mazibuko (24) Xolani Ntuli (47) Siphamandla Tshabalala (23) and Sifiso Mabena (21).

The suspects are expected back at the Kempton Park Magistrate Court within seven days to apply for bail where they are facing charges of contravening the Foreign Military Assistance Act.

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla was forced to voluntary resign as the member of parliament on Friday to focus on bringing back the 17 South Africans stuck in the Ukraine-Russia war.

The Zuma relatives who who cannot be named and who were lured to the Ukraine-Russia war are aged between (34), (28) and the grandchild who is (26)

Two members of the Zuma family who spoke to spoke to MDN News on condition that they remain anonymous said that the situation was bad between the members of the family.

“The situation is really bad. The families are not on speaking terms. The two boys who are stuck in that Ukraine-Russia war are Msholozi’s sons. His late older brother was their father. We are basically family. The problem about this is the fact this has become a war of both families as no one has bothered to call a family meeting to discuss the mess that Duduzile and her cronies did,” said the member.

Another family member said that the mother of the two boys has met Zuma but there was no way forward after the meeting.

“The mother of the two boys, who happens to be the wife of Zuma’s older brother took it upon herself to go and meet with her brother in law to find a solution to the mess that Duduzile created. She came back empty handed, the meeting was fruitless because aince then we are all hearing things fromthe media.

“The culprit is Duduzile. She is blueticking us and not saying a word to us as the family. She has never met any of the mothers of these boys who are overseas. The last time one of us spoke to her was when she was welcoming the boys in Russia and handed them over to the Russians. After that she has been scarce here in Nkandla. We think there was a lot of money involve which tempted her to recruit people for the Russians. All we want is for the family to work together and bring our boys back at home. If she’s indeed involved or she was blindsided, she must go and defdend herself in court,” another family member said.

Attempts to get comment from MK Party National Spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela proved fruitless as the calls and WhatsApp messages were ignored.

It will be remembered that Zuma’s older daughter, Nkosazana Bonganini Zuma-Mncube, opened a criminal case against her sister, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, in connection with the 17 South African men who were allegedly lured to Russia and sent to fight in Ukraine without their consent.

Zuma-Mncube said she had laid charges at the Sandton police station on November 22, and one of the people she is opening a case against is her sister.

She further said in her affidavit that out of all the 17 men, eight of them were close family members.

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