Gauteng ANC harbours criminals and corrupt members
21 November 2017
During question time in the Gauteng Legislature, the ANC in Gauteng side-stepped the opportunity to provide evidence to support their publicly-stated claims that they are tough on criminality and corruption amongst their members.
When questioned whether the party was aware that many ANC councillors in Mogale City have criminal records for crimes including rape, assault, shoplifting, culpable homicide and soliciting for the purposes of prostitution, MEC for Infrastructure Development, Jacob Mamabolo answering on behalf of COGTA MEC, Paul Mashatile obfuscated by saying the question was being asked in the wrong forum.
In addition, he was asked whether any probity checks are done prior to elections to ensure that public representatives have clean records.
Again, the MEC squirmed his way out of a straightforward response.