'You don't ask them whether they are crooks' - Mashatile on ANC donors
9 January 2019
While the ANC has become more vigilant after the VBS Mutual Bank scandal, it is not shutting its doors on donors, treasurer general Paul Mashatile says.
"I work on the basis that anybody who says: 'I run a legitimate business. I want to be in the ANC event,' must be given the benefit of the doubt," he said.
He spoke to News24 ahead of a walkabout at Durban City Hall and said his team was working harder to check the profiles of people wanting to buy tables at the party's annual gala dinner, which is set to take place on Friday.
Last year, not only were some of the party's leaders implicated in an explosive report on the collapse of VBS bank, but it also emerged that the governing party received donations and had some of its bills settled with VBS money.