Cape Town - The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on the African National Congress (ANC) to come clean about any of its senior politicians who have received money and assistance from well-wishers.

But the ANC claimed it had no knowledge of a list that Business Day columnist David Gleason said yesterday would be released "over the next week or so". Gleason said the list "will reveal who has received what and from whom. The names will include, I gather, very senior members of the present government."

DA chief whip Douglas Gibson said cabinet ministers and others who had received gifts or loans and not declared them as required by Parliament's rules should disclose them now.

"If the ANC wishes the public to believe that it is dedicated to rooting out corruption, it is essential that anyone who is or could be under suspicion should come clean now," he said.

"Financial assistance to politicians can be corruption or it can be friendship. What it must not be is clandestine assistance. Parliament has strict rules about the declaration of all gifts."

ANC spokesman Smuts Ngonyama said he had no information about any such list. He said ANC MPs were required to make declarations to Parliament, and this was enforced.

"Many members have complied with this requirement."

Ngonyama accused the DA of stopping at nothing in its attempts to discredit the ANC.

With acknowledgements to Linda Ensor and the Business Day.