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Cape Town - The African National Congress should take "wholesale" action against members who had enriched themselves by abusing black economic empowerment, United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa said on Monday.
"It must also come clean on all the convenient funding it has received in the process," he said in a statement.
"What we have seen is the creation of a network of deployed cadres who channel funding towards the ANC.
"If the ANC is serious about ending this corrupt practice it must do so wholesale, not just target select individuals who have fallen out of favour with the new leadership."
He said the public protector could not be expected to expose this matter "because the current incumbent is also a deployed cadre".
Big business was also complicit, and the UDM called on it to stop being an accomplice in awarding deals on the basis of people's political connections.
The companies involved had known that what they were doing was wrong, but continued for the sake of big deals and contracts.
"Now the chickens have come home to roost because the politically-connected cadre of yesterday is no longer the politically-connected cadre of today," he said.
The ANC last month dismissed media reports that it was conducting a forensic audit of transactions by the party's investment company, Chancellor House.
It said ANC treasurer Mathews Phosa had initiated an assessment of the value of the company.
This formed part of a process to establish if there were any perceived or real conflicts of interest for the ANC.
Media reports at the time suggested the probe was expected to look into roles played by President Thabo Mbeki, his deputy Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and former ANC treasurer-general Mendi Msimang.