ANC draws the line on foot-dragging, calls out governance failures

ANC NEC member, Dr Dickson Masemola, said the ANC could no longer tolerate officials who "drag their feet" or "snail pace" their responsibilities while communities suffer and corruption threatens to be a permanent feature of governance.

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Speaking ahead of the upcoming NGC, Masemola said the NEC's impatience was not a matter of choice but a matter of survival. "We cannot afford and we cannot accept situations where corruption wants to become a permanent feature of our administrative systems of government," he said.

The deputy minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) emphasised that President Cyril Ramaphosa's continued use of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and law-enforcement agencies to root out wrongdoing.