ANC to establish NEC task team to tackle Zondo report, says Ramaphosa
African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa says the National Executive Committee has agreed to establish a task team to guide the party’s response to the Zondo report.
The report, which was released by the commission’s chair Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo earlier this month, recommended criminal charges against some of the implicated parties.
This could affect ANC members who have been implicated in the report.
Trade union federation Cosatu has since said failure to implement the recommendations would be a waste of taxpayers’ money.
Ramaphosa delivered the closing address after the ANC’s NEC held its first two-day lekgotla over the weekend.
He says the task team would develop a paper on corruption and state capture.
“This would be the development of a discussion paper for ANC structures on corruption and state capture and processing of recommendations relating to ANC and its deployees.
"Whilst government will only pronounce fully on receipt of the completed report, the ANC urges government to fully address the behaviour and causes that allowed state capture to occur,” says Ramaphosa.
He further reaffirmed the party’s support for the constitution.
This follows the recent exchange of words between the presidency and Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu over her article questioning the judiciary.
Sisulu is a member of the ANC NEC.
“The ANC and the Alliance reaffirm our support for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the judiciary and distance ourselves from narratives that seek to negate its transformative intent and gains,” he said.
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