Members of the tripartite alliance should be consulted on who is appointed in government as they have an interest in how state power is exercised. This is the view of the general secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP) Blade Nzimande‚ who spoke during an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Chris Hani at the Thomas Nkobi Memorial Park in Ekurhuleni. Nzimande said one of the best ways to remember Hani would be to strengthen the alliance and re-look its configuration. "This alliance is too precious. Also, as the SACP‚ and we agree with South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) and union federation Cosatu‚ we have to go and convince the ANC we need to reconfigure the manner in which the alliance is functioning. "Our alliance is working as if we are still pre-1994. We are no longer pre-1994. Things have changed quite substantially now. I know when we say this‚ people say we want to be deployed. We, as communists, fought before there was ...
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