Thabo Mbeki

Former president Thabo Mbeki said his predecessor Nelson Mandela had as far back as 1997 identified the problem of joining it because they wanted to access ...

That would have a very serious impact on this matter of corruption, in combating corruption, to deal with these people within the ranks of the ANC who are in the ANC for wrong reasons. They join the ANC in order to steal and they will steal. “The ANC says it has got a membership of a million plus. Let us have fewer than a million, but better people who are true members of the ANC. Therefore, you are accumulating within the ranks of the ANC people who are bound to do wrong things. “If you look at ANC documents from 1997 to 2017 they all say the same thing, which is that the quality of membership of the ANC is deteriorating.