ANC to review cadre deployment, party funding policies
The ANC has confirmed the party's national executive committee has resolved to institute a review of its controversial cadre deployment policy.
The decision was taken at the party's latest NEC meeting and comes amid a court battle between the ANC and the DA over the policy.
The policy, which sees the governing party deploy members to strategic positions in the economy, has come under renewed scrutiny following findings by the commission of inquiry into state capture.
The commission branded the policy as unconstitutional and unlawful.
ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe, who briefed the media at the party's Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg on Wednesday, said the party agreed to review some of its founding policies.
"On findings on weaknesses and lapses by the ANC, the ANC will, among others, review its policies with respect to cadre deployment policy and practice, party funding principles, organisational discipline and accountability, and parliamentary oversight.
"The task team will make recommendations on key principles in each of these areas."
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Mabe said members who have been implicated in the state capture commission report have been asked to appear before the party's integrity commission.
"All such ANC current and former leaders and ANC members, without prejudice, must immediately take the initiative and present themselves to the integrity commission.
"The NEC received a presentation and made inputs on a discussion paper on the fight against corruption and measures to reverse and prevent the recurrence of state capture.
"This paper will be discussed in all ANC structures, in the processes leading up to and at the national policy conference later this month. The ANC will engage its alliance partners and civil society in soliciting inputs before and after the national policy conference on this critical national issue."
