DA lays complaint with IEC over ANC election ‘war room’

It was reported on Wednesday that corruption-accused facilities management company Bosasa had set it up for the ANC at its Krugersdorp headquarters over the past three elections.

The facilities are estimated to have cost R6 million.

These rooms are alleged to have been used by the ANC to campaign ahead of 2011, 2014 and 2016 elections and included a screen wall to track results, computers, cubicles with phones and 70 volunteers.

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DA leader Mmusi Maimane says these allegations prove a 20-year long corrupt, mutually beneficial relationship between the ANC and Bosasa.

"We demand that an inquiry is set up against Bosasa and where the ANC has been complicit it be charged and I've written to the IEC to lay a formal complaint for proper investigation.”

Maimane says if President Cyril Ramaphosa is serious about fighting corruption he should also institute a full-scale inquiry.

"He should instruct his cabinet to audit all government contracts and deals with Bosasa, instruct his cabinet to cancel all existing government contracts with Bosasa and make public his son Andile’s business contracts with Bosasa, which he told Parliament he has personally seen. We urge the president to stop talking and start acting on corruption – even when it implicates his own family."

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