Sunday Independent writes about fears that the ANC’s promise to clear up corruption with random lifestyle audits will lead to a witch-hunt.  

A lifestyle audit describes the tests performed to determine if the lifestyle of an employee is commensurate with that person’s known income stream.  Yet, the in principle decision by the ANC’s National Executive Committee to audit its leadership or any other member deployed to public office positions or to the corporate environment could open a Pandora’s box for the ruling party and bring about unintended consequences that would be hard to manage.  The details still have to be worked out and the ANC could be stepping on perilous terrain because an audit would invariably involve an invasive investigation of the person concerned, who will be placed under the microscope.  This could very well deepen the bitterness that already exists because of growing factionalism in the party’s ranks.

• Read this opinion piece by Zenzile Khoisan in full at Sunday Independent
• Read too, ANC’s support of lifestyle audits causes rumblings, at City Press

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