Cape Town — Former African National Congress (ANC) veteran, Tokyo Sexwale, has urged the party to stop allowing crooks to join the ANC and rot the party from the inside.
Sexwale has been on a campaign trail for the ANC and said the party faces trouble ahead of the elections.
He said that it was down to leaders from past and present to join the campaign and ensure that the party would stay in power.
Speaking to Newzroom Afrika, Sexwale said the ANC should be more aware and careful about who it allows into the party.
“There are mistakes, wrongs and even crimes that have been committed. So how does the ANC plan to renew itself? We cannot wait to hear shortcomings, mistakes and crimes from the police or Zondo when this maleficence have entered the ANC through some back passage paying merely R24 to join the ANC not because they want to stay in the ANC, but just a passage for the rabid dog to go and eat the eggs inside government,” he said.
“What the ANC now has to do in order to convince the people is to create the proper checks, balances and systems to make sure that crooks, maleficence and other such people should not enter the ANC,” Sexwale added.
ANC Veteran Tokyo Sexwale says the party must stop opening the door for crooks who join the ANC with the intention to steal taxpayers’ money. He says the ANC has allowed people to join the party without proper checks.
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He said the ANC has a duty and responsibility to keep the door shut when it comes to keeping all the crooks out of the party and added that it was up to the party to stay honest and to detect their own wrongdoings .
“For some reason, we have made some very serious mistakes by allowing people to enter the ANC without proper checks and balance. But its more than just stopping them from entering the ANC, even those who have entered as good comrades, three, four, five years down the line, they become maleficence.”
“So there’s a need for constant accountability, instead of later coming to correct mistakes and then they are taken to disciplinary committees.”
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