Pinky Kekana calls for naming and shaming of the corrupt

Communications Deputy Minister Pinky Kekana has come out strongly against corruption, charging those who were found on the wrong side of the law be named and shamed.

She was speaking at the memorial lecture for the late Limpopo African National Congress (ANC) Women’s League chairperson, Joy Matshoge, at the OR Tambo Hall in Modimolle on Friday 10 August.

Kekana is the former executive mayor of the Waterberg, and a resident of Bela-Bela.

The memorial lecture was followed by the tombstone unveiling on Saturday 11 August.

Kekana said as the country was headed towards the end of the fifth Parliament since the democratic government came into being in 1994, much had to be done to improve the lives of South
Africans.

“We have to bite the bullet and confront issues of corruption and maladministration. We also have to name and shame those who are found on the wrong side of the law,” she said.

Back to the main message of the day, Kekana compared Matshoge to the most celebrated anti–apartheid activist, Mama Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu, posthumously.

She said the two were comparable in a sense that they served their communities relentlessly, both in politics and in the nursing profession.

“It is important for us as women, to start telling our own stories. I am saying this because we have many women in the province who are nationally and internationally acclaimed, but so little is said about them,” she said.

The provincial secretary of the ANC, Soviet Lekganyane, thanked the Matshoge family for being open-hearted and working together with the organisation to ensure that the memorial lecture and
tombstone unveiling ceremony were held successfully.

He said that the ANC in the province has committed itself to walk the talk.

— The BEAT