Corrupt ANC cadres must be jailed, not given a harsher slap on the wrist, DA leader John Steenhuisen said in response to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s letter to ANC rank and file on Sunday morning.
Johannesburg - , Ramaphosa said the governing party remained"Accused No1" when it came to corruption and that it now had to publicly disassociate itself from any member, business donor or anyone accused of corruption or reported to be involved in corruption, including the looting of Covid-19 relief funds which he said had created public anger and disillusionment with the party.
In response Steenhuisen called the letter a “word salad”, the ANC’s Integrity Commission “toothless” and Ramaphosa a “Spectator President”. “This letter is word salad when President Ramaphosa has demonstrated, most recently, that corrupt cadres continue to be rewarded within his party, and not removed from their positions and punished in accordance with the law of the country,” the DA leader said.
The DA leader said that he would be “compiling a list of each and every ANC member and public servant facing allegations of corruption in the coming week” which he will submit to the president, and which the DA “will track very closely to see just how serious President Ramaphosa alleges he has become in the fight against his party’s corruption”.
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