VBS heist: ANC Veterans League wants implicated officials to step aside

Briefing the media in Limpopo on Friday, the league’s provincial secretary Jacob Marule has urged Premier Stan Mathabatha to deal decisively with corruption. 

Marule adds the systemic corruption in the province made it easy for great bank heist to take place. 

“Deputy chairperson of the province Florence Radzilani and provincial treasurer Danny Msiza must step aside pending internal investigations.”

The forensic report by advocate Terry Motau, entitled “The Great Bank Heist”, described Msiza as the kingpin who facilitated bribes between municipal officials and the bank.

Marule said both the national ANC and the government should investigate the alleged meeting that took place at a ranch in the province, where municipal officials were solicited to deposit a large sum of money into the bank. 

He called on the ANC to act decisively to restore the party’s moral fibre, by taking actions against leaders implicated in the VBS scandal.

“We must insist that individuals holding leadership positions and are facing allegations of corruption must not be allowed to lead as if its business as usual.” 

Listen below:

Speaking the party’s headquarters in Johannesburg on Thursday, ANC’s elections head Fikile Mbalula described the looting of VBS as devastating for the poorest of the poor.

Mbalula said those implicated in the collapse of the bank must face the full might of the law.

“Because the ANC did not send anyone to be corrupt. It didn’t as an organisation say go and be corrupt on our behalf. People who are corrupt are corrupt o their own.”

Listen below: