In a joint statement with its social partners, including the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation and the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution , the SACC said it had been forced to act after corruption had spiraled out of control.
“After years of state capture and unethical governance, and more recently, large scale looting of Covid-19 emergency funding, that time is upon us,” SACC general secretary Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana said. “In the next week, the SACC and its partner organisations will work with a number of other formations, academics, and legal experts to mobilise a comprehensive societal response against corruption.
The organisations, Mpumlwana said, will in the next few days be exerting pressure on government to address the culture of corruption within departments and state entities.
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