The Democratic Alliance on Friday challenged the New National Party and the African National Congress, as well as senior party leaders, to open their respective and joint party books to a forensic audit.
This follows statements by NNP executive director Renier Schoeman and Western Cape leader Ebrahim Rasool, on Wednesday, in which the claimed the Ernst and Young forensic audit of Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel, DA chief fund-raiser in the province Leon
Markovitz, and the DA’s books was a ”whitewash”.
DA Western Cape chairman Theuns Botha said on Friday this was an insult to the good name of the company that did the audit, as well as ”the intelligence of the people of this province”.
Schoeman and Rasool had no right to ”call an intensive forensic audit by one of the most respected auditing firms in the world… a whitewash”, when they themselves refused to be audited in the same
way.
The DA challenged Schoeman and Rasool ”to open their respective and joint party books, as well as their personal financial records, to an intensive forensic audit”, Botha said.
The audit, was unable to establish the source of an anonymous donation of DM99 000 to the DA, which senior party officials claimed came from a mysterious German donor known only as ”Hans”.
The auditors also found no evidence that either the DA, Morkel, or Markovitz, received any money from German fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen. – Sapa