Stepping aside means ... keeping your salary?
Initially hailed as a positive step towards rooting out corrupt public office-bearers, the ANC national executive committee (NEC) resolution that all members charged with corruption should step aside is now under scrutiny for being impractical and infringing on government structures’ autonomy.
Two ministers who spoke to City Press said the decision “was motivated by a public outcry against corruption and was not well thought out”.
“It was meant for the party [ANC] to be seen to be doing the right thing,
