Society must demand politicians undergo lifestyle audits - David Makhura

Acting ANC provincial chairman David Makhura, says some civil servants in South Africa may pass a competency test but would fail dismally in integrity and ethics.Mr. Makhura was speaking at the close of the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation's inaugural three-day Inclusive Growth Forum on Sunday. 

He encouraged South Africans to cultivate an obsession with integrity and ethics, saying the issue of dealing with corruption could not be resolved through only making the right appointments in the country's crime-fighting institutions.He also said the course of fighting corruption needed to change in South Africa.

He added that,government needs to stop seeing civil society as an enemy. The chairman said it is fundamental for society to insist on politicians undergoing lifestyle audits.

SOURCE: NEWS24
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