ANC Members Criticize Party For The Reinstatement Of Limpopo Officials Fingered In VBS Looting

LUCAS LEDWABA

THE ANC has come under more fire from within its ranks in Limpopo as the fallout over the handling of the VBS Mutual Bank scandal unfolds.

On Wednesday, the VBS Shareholders Forum and ANC-aligned organisations, including churches, community organisations, traditional leaders and healers, civic, unions and political formations and the party’s provincial veterans’ league, made public a scathing letter sent to the party’s Secretary General, Ace Magashule.

The organisations are organised under the Justice for Musetsho-Mani Campaign, after two South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) Tshililo Musetsho and Ronald Mani “were brutally assassinated when they fearlessly campaigned against the looting of the Vhembe District Municipality funds through the VBS Bank.”

In the letter, the organisations criticised the party’s national executive committee (NEC) for its decision to reinstate two of its provincial leaders, Florence Radzilani and Danny Msiza, who are both implicated in the VBS looting.

The organisations also