Mbeki: People who joined ANC for self-enrichment a big problem for party

Former African National Congress (ANC) president Thabo Mbeki said one of the problems the party faced was people who joined it for personal gain.

Mbeki addressed the KwaZulu-Natal ANC structures during a political school class in Durban on Saturday.

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The party invited Mbeki to add his input as it works to regain the decline of support in what used to be its stronghold.

Mbeki said that in the past, people used to join the party to advance the fight for liberation but things took a different turn when they became a government party.

"Then we started attracting wrong people. People who were interested in the membership of the party, comrade Convenor raised this thing this morning when he spoke, not to pursue the objectives of the movement but for self-betterment... self-enrichment... and that’s a problem."