JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA MAY 17: Minister of Home Affairs, Naledi Pandor at the launch of the ANC Womens League “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign at Johannesburg City Hall on May 17, 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The campaign forms part of the global “Bring back our girls” campaign. 276 girls were kidnapped at their boarding school by Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram in April 14, 2014. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sunday Times /Simphiwe Nkwali)
Naledi Pandor calls for lifestyle audits of ANC members
Last year, the ANC national executive committee said that it would be implementing lifestyle audits, but Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor reckons this has not happened yet.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA MAY 17: Minister of Home Affairs, Naledi Pandor at the launch of the ANC Womens League “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign at Johannesburg City Hall on May 17, 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The campaign forms part of the global “Bring back our girls” campaign. 276 girls were kidnapped at their boarding school by Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram in April 14, 2014. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sunday Times /Simphiwe Nkwali)
In an interview with the Sunday Times over the weekend, Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor believes many of her cabinet colleagues are living beyond their means.
She said that the ANC has not followed the direction given by the national executive committee to scrutinise party leaders’ lifestyles.
“How would a colleague have a 13-bedroom house and another a three-bedroom house? [They have] 13 bedrooms in Sandringham or something and I have a three-bedroom in Claremont,” she told the paper.
“They should start asking questions about those people. It is well beyond what we earn. So this is what I am saying: are our institutions so useless that they are unable to identify some of these things?”
The ANC’s national executive committee supports so-called lifestyle audits but many – especially supporters of President Jacob Zuma – are against the notion. The paper said that those opposed to the idea say it would be “tantamount to policing black wealth”.
In the same interview, Pandor also expressed her dislike for ministers having it out with each other in public.
“I don’t believe that I must be so desperate for power that I should destroy another comrade in the public domain, or seek to undermine them in any way.
“To me that just means you don’t love the ANC as you should, nor do you love South Africa as you should.”
