Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula, whose name was mentioned in the Brett Kebble murder trial this week, has warned ANC members against corruption.
"ANC members who falter and engage in corrupt activities, they themselves must be arrested and must be named and shamed as corrupt," Mbalula told reporters in Johannesburg.
"People being corrupt... is counter-revolutionary," added the former leader of the ANC Youth League.
He was briefing the media on the Imvuselelo (renewal) campaign in terms of which the ruling ANC aims to have one million members by 2012.
Mbalula was responding to a question on whether ANC members were allowed to tender for government contracts.
"ANC members are not excluded from tenders," he said.
"The ANC is a church, what we expect of ANC members, when they tender and run tenders, they must be exceptional."
He said the ANC did not want "tenderpreneurs" who "defaulted in the tender process" and ended up delivering bad services, such as poorly built houses and roads.
"They must not be tenderpreneurs; tenderpreneurs are corrupt people."
Corruption was against the "principles and values of the movement", he added.
Mbalula was speaking a day after his name was mentioned in the High Court in Johannesburg, where convicted drug dealer Glenn Agliotti stands accused of killing Kebble.
The mining magnate's butler, Andrew Minnaar, told the court Kebble had a separate cellphone for "Fikile of the youth league", which was used "to have confidential discussions".
The court also heard that former police commissioner Jackie Selebi was on Kebble's pay roll.
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