LISTEN: Mabuza blames weakened family values for rampant corruption
Deputy President David Mabuza has shifted blame for the rampant corruption at public institutions.
Mabuza replied to oral questions at the National Assembly on Thursday where he told MPs that corruption at state organs could be attributed to a degeneration of family values in society.
The remarks come as government battles deep-seated corruption at a myriad of state institutions.
Allegations have also been levelled against high-ranking officials, including various ministers.
Mabuza's remarks come as South Africans wait with bated breath for prosecutions in some of the country's biggest corruption scandals.
The report of the commission of inquiry into state capture is the latest to call for heads to roll.
Mabuza admitted corrupt officials must be held accountable.
"When we went through the Covid-19, we created the Fusion Centre and we realised that all the institutions that are meant to deal with corruption are collaborating.
"Some of the people that were identified in those PPE corruption scandals are brought to book. All those people that have been identified are being followed.
"I am confident that the capability of our institutions can deal with those problems," said Mabuza.
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But he believes the root cause is being ignored.
"There are foreign tendencies that have creeped in over time in our government system, and those tendencies are now seeking to threaten the moral standing of our nation. Corruption has become a problem and you can only look at corruption in our public institutions and forget to look at tis corruption that is within our nation.
"If you have a good nation, a good society, you will have a limited prevalence of these social ills in our public institutions.
"These young people that are working in our institutions, they are from families. If they were well brought up, they were going to frown at corruption, they were going to frown at maladministration."
Mabuza added that critics of government must also look into corruption in the private sector.
"The public sector is being corrupted by the private sector. Where there is a corrupt public servant, there is a corruptee in the private sector.
"We must also look at corruption in the private sector," Mabuza added.
Listen to Mabuza below:
