South Africa: Maimane Takes Anti-Corruption Fight to Chancellor House

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The Democratic Alliance was engulfed in scandal last week, but on Thursday party leader Mmusi Maimane led a spirited attack on the African National Congress and its funding company, Chancellor House. The World Bank has joined the list of those looking into the company's deal with Hitachi and for Maimane it couldn't have come at a better time. By GREG NICOLSON.

In front of almost 1,000 Democratic Alliance (DA) supporters outside Chancellor House's Sandton offices, DA leader Mmusi Maimane used the institution's historic links to slate the current African National Congress (ANC) leadership. "We must tell them: what you've done to president Nelson Mandela's Chancellor House you are not going to do to South Africa. What you've done to the Chancellor House of Walter Sisulu you are not going to do to South Africa," he said.

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