The SACP will not tell the ANC what to do, says Blade Nzimande
It is up to the ruling party to remove Jacob Zuma as ‘the party assigns the president’
It would be up to the ANC and not the South African Communist Party (SACP) to remove President Jacob Zuma from office‚ Blade Nzimande said on Monday morning. "We’re not going to be telling the ANC what to do. It’s up to the ANC itself to decide what to do‚" the SACP general secretary told Radio 702. "Though we are allies‚ they are actually the governing party that assigns the president." He noted that there were problems within the tripartite alliance‚ saying: "We do have points of challenges and serious crises that are facing us as a movement‚ as illustrated‚ by amongst other things‚ a not-so-great performance in the local government elections‚ and losing some of the metros‚ as well as challenges in parts of the state and state-owned enterprises." Nzimande said that adding to these was "the corporate capture of the state‚ and all these things are causing stresses inside the movement and in the country as a whole". He said the SACP was most concerned about the "parasitic bourgeoisie...
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