Blade Nzimande says the Communist Party's Congress needs to assess whether the deployment of SACP leaders to government has strengthened or weakened the party.
FILE: Blade Nzimande at the SACP's 14th National Congress in Boksburg. Picture: Twitter/@SACP1921
Clement Manyathela | a day ago
BOKSBURG - South African Communist Party (SACP) general Secretary Blade Nzimande says the Communist Party's congress needs to assess whether the deployment of SACP leaders to government has strengthened or weakened the party.
The Communist Party is holding its 14th National Congress in Boksburg this week, where Nzimande has hit out at President Jacob Zuma's leadership.
There are several members of the SACP's central executive committee that are part of President Zuma's Cabinet, the same president that the Communist Party wants to step down.
Before that president reshuffled his Cabinet earlier this year, the Communist Party threatened that its members deployed in Cabinet may resign en-masse to avoid being complicit to what the party called "bad decisions".
That didn't happen but Nzimande believes the deployment of SACP leaders in government must be discussed at the congress.
"Has the deployment, since 2009, tended to strengthen or weakened the party?"
Meanwhile, Eyewitness News revealed last month that the African National Congress's top six discussed tensions and challenges that arise when Cabinet ministers, serving at the behest of the president, also hold leadership positions in political structures.
http://ewn.co.za/2017/07/12/nzimande-deployment-of-sacp-leaders-to-govt-must-be-reviewed
