ANC denies donations-for-jobs claims

An ANC supporter holds a flag of the ANC while the President Jacob Zuma addresses ANC Gauteng Cadre Assembly in Pretoria. Picture: Phill Magakoe

An ANC supporter holds a flag of the ANC while the President Jacob Zuma addresses ANC Gauteng Cadre Assembly in Pretoria. Picture: Phill Magakoe

Published Aug 6, 2014

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Johannesburg - The ANC is a donor-driven organisation but levies and contributions are not paid to the party in return for government jobs, treasurer general Zweli Mkhize said on Wednesday.

“The African National Congress categorically rejects any attempt to link voluntary and unconditional financial contributions by members, supporters, and sympathisers of the ANC to the acquisition or retention of any jobs in the public sector.

“Donations to the ANC are not transactional. Anyone who contributes to the organisation cannot expect anything, nor do they contribute in exchange of anything,” he said in a statement.

The ANC had received reports from a number of its members that the media had been calling with questions on the donations they made in their individual capacity.

He said the questions seemed to be designed to “intimate that members” of the ANC who were civil servants were paying levies to the party to obtain or retain their “deployment” in government.

Members, supporters, and sympathisers of the ANC contributed voluntarily and unconditionally, he said.

Contributions and donations were the ANC's main source of funding.

“There are many other people who approach the organisation of their own volition to make contributions and others who when approached by the organisation to contribute decline to do so,” he said.

“Government has clear policies and processes guiding human capital attraction, retention, and management within the civil service. Nowhere is a contribution to the ANC a requirement for employment.”

People could donate through many mediums, including direct deposits and online transfers. - Sapa

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