ANC flag outside Luthuli House. Picture: Michel Bega The ANC’s secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula, says their wealthy members should also help the party to resolve its financial problems. He was speaking at the Birchwood hotel in Boksburg on Wednesday, where the party is holding its National General Council (NGC).
“It is correct that you have very rich people who happen to be ANC members…it is a question of the conscience of those members to contribute the wealth that they have acquired as members of the ANC,” he said. Mbalula’s comments come as the party isstruggling to pay staff salaries. According to Mbalula, their wage bill is around R20 million per month.
Mbalula said he has also not been receiving a salary for months. But he said the party is developingstrategies to become financially sustainable. “Our mobilisation of resources will not look at only people who are members; we will expand the strategy to ensure that we raise enough resources for the organisation,” he said.
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Mbalula told the media that the delegates to their NGC had paid for their own expenses to participate in the conference. “We are here because members of the ANC contributed individually to be here, from the point of transport to accommodating themselves. This is something that has not happened in the past.
“This is part of the renewal process we have introduced that members take care of the business of the organisation, so coming to this meeting, we have copied the way of doing things like in the church,” he said. Mbalula said ANC members will also have to start buying their own T-shirts for conferences.
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