Mbalula: Give the Zondo commission space and time to do its work

Mbalula addressed the media at Luthuli House on Tuesday.

His comments came after explosive details emerged at the commission of inquiry into state capture, implicating Minister of Environmental Affairs Nomvula Mokonyane in corrupt dealings involving controversial facilities management company Bosasa.

Former Bosasa executive Angelo Agrizzi has testified before the Zondo Commission that Mokonyane received  groceries, expensive alcohol and meat every year. 

Agrizzi also claims that Mokonyane was paid R50,000 every month in exchange for her influence to stop criminal investigations into Bosasa.

The revelations has again brought put the ANC’s involvement in state capture into sharp focus.

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There are also growing calls for Mokonyane to resign.

Mbalula, however, has reiterated the party’s message that the commission should be given a chance to finish its work.

"When we say we want to run a clean government and some of our representatives are doing wrong things, the ANC can't take collective responsibility about that.

"There is no such in the ANC we will take collective responsibility with the wrong doings. There is no such. Neither will we judge our comrades based on hearsay.

"We will never do that because if we do that we will be devouring our own comrades, for the agenda of people we don't know. But we will never defend the wrong doing, neither will we take short cuts.”

Mbalula also defended the ANC's door-to-door campaigns ahead of this year’s elections. 

The party has come into for scrutiny from some quarters for its perceived anti-poor stance.