Ramaphosa says corruption runs the risk of destroying the ANC
President Cyril Ramaphosa warns that if corruption within the party continues to go unchecked it will destroy the African National Congress (ANC).
Ramaphosa delivered the Raymond Mhlaba Memorial Lecture in Vryheid in Kwa-Zulu Natal on Sunday.
The President added that corruption has weakened the governing party and its allies.
"If we do not do something about it, corruption will ultimately also destroy the ANC. We need to be taking steps to be doing this.
"We are already seeing a lot of progress that we are makinig within our own ranks. It requires that we examine our own behaviour and act only in the interest of the people of South Africa," he says.
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Ramaphosa also added that the rise in stealing of public funds is undermining economic growth.
"The unrivalled contestation within our ranks for public resources and the graft that has become commonplace in many of our public institutions must present a great threat to the advancement of our national democratic revolution.
"These undermine economic and social decvelopment. They also erode democratic practises, they disempower our citizens and weaken national liberation movement.
"Corruption and the associated phenominon of state capture are obstacles ti the achievemtn of radical economic transformation," warns Ramaphosa.