ANC must repay Kebble cash

THE ANC must pay back about R14-million it received from slain mining magnate Brett Kebble.

This follows an unsuccessful ANC court bid to hold on to the donations, unlike other political parties, which have paid back what they received from the Kebble Buitendag Investment Trust.

The trust was used as a conduit to curry favour with politicians.

Kebble committed fraud involving about R2-billion and doled out some of the money to political parties and influential politicians.

The donations came to light during the sequestration hearings into his insolvent estate in 2006.

The ANC has launched several court actions since 2007 to have an order instructing the party to repay just more than R600 000 expunged.

The trustees have also been fighting a drawn-out legal battle to recover the money Kebble

The trust was used as a conduit to curry favour with politicians

funnelled to the former head of the ANC Youth League in the Western Cape, Lunga Ncwana, and provincial secretary-general Songezo Mjongile.

In November 2006, after a sequestration hearing, the trustees demanded the return of donations to the ANC in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape, the ANC Youth League, Ncwana and Mjongile.

The ANC asked the High Court in Cape Town to expunge the claim by the Kebble estate trustees. The party wanted the trustees to prove that the estate was insolvent at the time Kebble made the donations — as claimed.

At the time, the trustees claimed that the ANC’s application was a delaying tactic. “The application is disingenuous, devoid of any merit and an abuse of process,” the trustees said in court papers.

“It is a delaying tactic used in order to frustrate the finalisation of the action.”

On Friday, the High Court in Cape Town dismissed the ANC application with costs.