Cosatu welcomes ban of public officials doing business with government

Loyiso Langeni
31 July 2014

The Congress of South African Trade Union welcomed the ban on public figures doing business with the state. 

Cosatu Spokesperson Patrick Craven said it becomes particularly toxic when public figures or their close family members do business with public bodies. 

Craven said Cosatu has always been at the forefront of the fight against corruption for many years.

Craven said we have requested the public representatives particularly those at senior level should not be involved in businesses at all because even if they are not doing any business with the government it nevertheless affects their judgement.

 

"Based on analytic to represent the people and specifically in the case of the ANC they own the membership and their mandate must be the party’s manifesto and conference resolution and they should never be influenced by the fact that they have got big investment in companies which may have decent interests,” Craven added.