{"id":1687,"date":"2020-09-06T10:39:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T08:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=431626"},"modified":"2020-09-06T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T08:39:16","slug":"mabuza-sends-warning-message-about-corruption-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/2020\/09\/06\/mabuza-sends-warning-message-about-corruption-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mabuza sends warning message about corruption in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/DavidMabuza1-e1597303468479.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s Deputy President David Mabuza said the ruling party must rid itself of corrupt members, throwing his weight behind the party\u2019s anti-graft drive.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling African National Congress party\u2019s leaders must back President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s anti-graft stance, his deputy said in an open letter published in the Sunday Times. South Africa\u2019s governing party need to \u201cdraw the line in the sand against corruption,\u201d Mabuza wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe perception that we are corrupt is as real and severe as the prevailing onslaught on the image of the ANC,\u201d Mabuza said.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa last month said&nbsp;corruption&nbsp;in Africa\u2019s most industrialized economy had become endemic in the 108-year-old party that led the fight against white-minority rule and has held power since the country\u2019s first<span id=\"c143d376-f015-11ea-9477-308d99722a50\">&nbsp;multi-<\/span>racial elections in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Graft flourished during the nine-year rule of Ramaphosa\u2019s predecessor, Jacob Zuma, and government estimates that more than R500 billion&nbsp; ($30 billion) was probably looted from state coffers during the period.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the government is probing suspect fraudulent contracts worth more than R5 billion for goods and services to tackle the Covid-19 epidemic.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/427902\/ramaphosa-has-written-a-letter-to-anc-members-about-corruption-here-is-what-it-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ramaphosa has written a letter to ANC members about corruption: here is what it says<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/431626\/mabuza-sends-warning-message-about-corruption-in-south-africa\/\">Source: BusinessTech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Deputy President David Mabuza said the ruling party must rid itself of corrupt members, throwing his weight behind the party\u2019s anti-graft drive. The ruling African National Congress party\u2019s leaders must back President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s anti-graft stance, his deputy said in an open letter published in the Sunday Times. South Africa\u2019s governing party need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[52,53,54,55,56,8,57,59,72,60,61,62,63,64,65,66],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-co-za","tag-com","tag-affordable","tag-cheap","tag-cpanel","tag-development","tag-domain","tag-hosting","tag-interweb","tag-joomla","tag-registration","tag-reseller","tag-shared","tag-south-africa","tag-website","tag-wordpress"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interwebdev.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}