ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula has been asked to clarify who paid for the ANC KZN Women’s League conference which was later nullified.
About R5-million is said to have been forked out by the eThekwini metro to fund the political event that took place in August.
But the ANC in the province has stuck to its guns, saying the money for convening the four-day elective conference held at Durban’s International Convention Centre (ICC) came from the party coffers.
ActionSA in KwaZulu-Natal is leading the campaign seeking transparency over the funds that paid for the venue.
“I’m not entirely sure whether you have been furnished with all relevant information pertaining to the matter where the eThekwini municipality committed themselves to fund the ANCWL conference using taxpayer funds,” read a letter written by Zwakele Mncwango, ActionSA’s provincial chairperson.
Mncwango explained to Mbalula that he had ventilated the issue with the governing party’s provincial secretary Bheki Mtolo, however, he was not satisfied with the answers he received.
“Through further investigations, we uncovered that the ICC did receive two payments of R784 000 and R980 000 on the 19th of August 2023, however, our investigations refute claims by Mtolo and revealed that the payments were made by a private entity and not the ANC,” charged Mncwango.
It was not immediately clear whether Mbalula would take the ActionSA’s demands seriously and order sanction of the party’s KZN wing to answer for the allegations.
The conference under scrutiny was nullified after other ANC regions complained that it was rigged ordering it to reconvene.
