Delegates at the ANC National General Council meeting on 9 December 2025 in Boksburg. Picture: Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) member Fébé Potgieter-Gqubule says the party is concerned about the use of money to secure leadership positions. She was speaking at a media briefing on Thursday at the Birchwood hotel, where the ANC is holding its National General Council (NGC).
Her remarks follow allegations that delegates at the ANC Greater Johannesburg regional conference were given money to vote for particular candidates. The issue of vote buying has been recurring in different elective conferences of the party. “This pains ANC members, and this is something that is at the root of undermining the values and integrity of the ANC.
“Because at the end of the day, people do not take that money from their pockets or from their own bank accounts. It comes from all sorts of things that the ANC does not know about. This is why it is wrong, and it is counterrevolutionary, and if the ANC wants to renew, then they have to deal with that,” she said.
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Potgieter-Gqubule said there was a time when this issue seemed to be shoved under the carpet in the ANC. But she said the party is now dealing with it as part of its renewal programme. “We have not reinstated those clauses to say that it is a disciplinary offence to use money in ANC processes.
“What we have said to the electoral commission is that they must implement what is in the rules that if you are found guilty of using money unlawfully in an ANC process, you must be disqualified from standing for elections, it’s in our rules,” she said. Potgieter-Gqubule also said there is a proposal to introduce a corruption hotline for reporting ANC members who have broken the law. “How do we deal with money politics in the ANC, this is about the realisation that time has run out for the movement, we either renew or we perish,” she said.
In most ANC elective conferences, delegates are sent to represent their branches or structures. Those delegates would then be given the mandate to vote for the leadership of the party.
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