President Cyril Ramaphosa has agreed to have the ANC’s Integrity Commission question him about his CR17 campaign amid calls for him to step down.
ANC sources said on Friday after MP Bongani Bongo called on Ramaphosa to face the Integrity Commission, the president agreed.
Ramaphosa faced growing calls from the party’s National Executive Committee to step down from the party this weekend.
Thanks to his CR17 campaign, Ramaphosa clinched the top job of the party.
But the CR17 campaign has been the subject of court processes where calls have been made for Ramaphosa to reveal his funders.
Among those who called for the resignation is senior NEC member Tony Yengeni.
Meanwhile, former president Jacob Zuma has also sent a scathing letter to Ramaphosa in which he accuses his successor of selling out the ANC and decrying corruption in its ranks to cover up the allegations against himself.
“It is unforgivable to label our rank and file members as criminals for the crimes you and those with whom you serve in the structures of state are accused of,” Zuma said in the extraordinary letter.
Zuma took issue with a letter Ramaphosa wrote to the party, in which he said the ANC is “accused number one” as the country grappled with corruption.
Zuma accused the president of breaching party tradition by getting funding for his CR17 campaign, and of taking money from “white monopoly capital”, and going to great lengths to keep the source a secret.