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South African Vice President David Mabuza said the ruling party must get rid of corrupt members and support the party’s anti-corruption campaign.
Leaders of the ruling African National Congress party should back up the anti-corruption stance of President Cyril Ramaphosa, his deputy said in an open letter published in the Sunday Times. South Africa’s ruling party must “draw the line in the sand against corruption,” Mabuza wrote.
“The perception that we are corrupt is as real and severe as the prevailing attack on the image of the ANC,” Mabuza said.
Ramaphosa said last month that corruption in Africa’s most industrialized economy had become endemic in the 108-year-old party that led the fight against white minority rule and has held power since the country’s first campaign. multi-racial elections in 1994.
The graft flourished during the nine-year rule of Ramaphosa’s predecessor Jacob Zuma, and the government estimates that probably more than R500 billion ($ 30 billion) were looted from state coffers during the period.
Currently, the government is investigating suspected fraudulent contracts worth more than R5 billion for goods and services to tackle the Covid-19 epidemic.
Read: Ramaphosa has written a letter to ANC members about corruption – this is what he says
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