A magistrate has relaxed the bail conditions of a former Mpumalanga MEC accused of raping his twin daughters as the man has been reinstated as a member of the ANC provincial executive committee (PEC).

The man – who cannot be named to protect the identity of his eight-year-old daughters – and his stepson appeared in the Nelspruit magistrate’s court yesterday, where the father pleaded with the magistrate to relax his bail conditions...