NATIONAL NEWS - The continuing VBS Mutual Bank saga is now driving a wedge between the ANC in Limpopo and its youth and women’s leagues, who are adamant that all those responsible for investing municipal funds with the bank should face the chop immediately, while their mother body seems content with a more patient approach.
The ANC Youth League in the province yesterday called for the immediate dismissal of mayors from municipalities that invested millions in the collapsing Venda Business Society Mutual Bank (VBS).
The league said yesterday there was no doubt that mayors were responsible for the investment of the municipal millions into VBS and that action against those mayors was supposed to be treated as a matter of urgency.
“Mayors are political heads in municipalities. In most cases, their words are law. We are aware that they ordered chief finance officers and municipal managers to invest with the bank.
“They are therefore responsible for the investments and they must be recalled, not tomorrow, not next week, but now,” the league’s acting provincial secretary, Matome Moremi, said yesterday. “As the youth league, we have taken a decision that all mayors whose municipalities are implicated must resign now or be recalled.”
The league’s call for the dismissal of the mayors was also echoed by the party’s women’s league.
“We think it is time to move beyond statements. Any perception of a cover-up, delays and politicisation of the matter will further alienate the ANC from the masses on the ground,” ANC Women’s League provincial spokesperson, Christina Mohale, said yesterday.
“The name of the ANC must never be used to pursue corrupt activities.”
