Absa refuses to comment on ANCWL's 'apartheid corruption' claims
13 April 2016
Johannesburg - Absa on Wednesday said would not get involved in a debate with the ANC Women's League, after it accused the bank of benefiting corruptly under the apartheid government.
"We have noted the ANCWL statement and do not believe it warrants a response," the bank said.
The ANCWL's secretary general Meokgo Matuba on Wednesday criticised President Jacob Zuma's detractors: Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, former finance minister Trevor Manuel, his wife and Barclays Africa Group CEO Maria Ramos, and the Rupert family. Matuba was reacting to Manuel's statement on Soweto TV that it would be in South Africa's best interests for Zuma to step down.
This followed the Constitutional Court's judgment on March 31 that he violated the Constitution by ignoring Madonsela's remedial action to repay some of the money spent on so-called security upgrades to his private Nkandla homestead."It remains a mystery as to what extent the rule of law applies and to whom," Matuba said.