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South African paper says candidates' list shows ANC's "ambiguity" on graft.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report by privately-owned, widely-read South African weekly The Sunday Times website on 1 March

[Editorial: "Eligible for office does not mean fit and proper']

The list of the ANC's top 100 candidates for parliamentary seats, which was released this week, underlined yet again the ambiguity of the party's policy on corruption.

On the one hand, we have ANC president Jacob Zuma promising clean government, with zero tolerance for corruption and strict adherence to performance targets, and on the other we have the nomination of convicted fraudsters and failed administrators at the top of the party list.

As we report elsewhere in the paper today, this year's election will be decided by a new breed of voters not …

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