Sisulu offers to reveal funding

HUMAN Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu is willing to reveal how her presidential campaign is being funded.

Sisulu offered to make her bank statements public during a discussion with journalist Karima Brown at a Radio 702 event on Wednesday.

“There are people, especially my family and friends, who are offering and have offered to pay. What attracts me to my campaign is I know everybody who is in that campaign has come out of commitment‚ deep-seated commitment. Not one of them has come hoping to get anything out of it‚” she said.

“I would like to give you all my account numbers ‚ I’d like to give you the constituency funds that we use and we send.

“Every penny is accounted for . . . and every penny that is used is used for a particular purpose.”

She said she wanted people to trust her and know that she would safeguard the values of the ANC, and spoke about the presidential campaign, which began after members of the ANC made themselves available to replace President Jacob Zuma.

“It is quite a difficult space to be in. In the ANC we don’t campaign. It is just very uncharacteristic of the ANC, and we are thrust in a situation where we have more than two contenders for the job, and therefore we are thrown in a situation where we’ve got to move with the times and be in a campaign mood, which is a new terrain.”

On why she thought that she was right for the job‚ she said: “I am standing [for ANC president] because I’ve come to a point where I’ve realised that we are at a crossroads. We are going through a very difficult time in the ANC. The factions in the ANC are almost identical . . . to those which we had in Polokwane, and it is not good for the ANC‚ it is not good for democracy‚ it is not good for the general public.” — DDC