Ramaphosa takes a stand on corruption in letter to ANC members

President Cyril Ramaphosa took the unprecedented step on Sunday of writing directly to the ANC’s more than a million members promising them that the party will take steps to deal with corruption.

ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe said Ramaphosa’s letter is being distributed to all party members through various networks, social media and the machinery of the party’s department of information and publicity. The letter will also be uploaded onto the ANC’s website and published in its weekly newsletter, ANC Today.

He said the ANC should also conduct lifestyle audits of all its leaders and public representatives, and develop a clear policy on ANC leaders and their family members doing business with the state. The party leaders should also make regular declarations of financial interests.There has been outrage in the country over corruption and with how Ramaphosa — who rose to the presidency on an anticorruption ticket — has been tackling it within his own party and the government.

Corruption in the ANC is rooted in factional politics, which is why the organisation fails time and again to live up to its promises, analysts say. “The only way they can give effect [to Ramaphosa’s intentions] is when he is able to have a critical mass within the ANC that will say ‘enough is enough’, especially the ANC NEC [national executive committee] and that in itself is unlikely to come from within the ANC because it is profoundly compromised to the core.”

The ANC government and the party have made so many promises that the only time they will have credibility is when Ramaphosa himself “manages to marshal the courage that we have not seen yet from his side in that he draws the line and he is prepared to lose power if his principle and position is not followed”.

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