'Should we stay or should we go?' - SACP to debate future of alliance with ANC
'I challenge you that the delegate you send to our congress in July be given a mandate to discuss this. You must be bold,' said Nzimande
Faced with an increasingly hostile alliance with the ANC, SA Communist Party leader Blade Nzimande has urged party members to openly discuss the prospect of going it alone in 2019 and beyond. The debate is gaining momentum ahead of the party’s 14th national congress in July, with the Young Communist League and senior SACP leaders speaking openly about it. Addressing hundreds of supporters at the OR Tambo memorial lecture in Umlazi, Durban, yesterday, the SACP general secretary said the party would no longer be intimidated. “We have been talking about the need to reconfigure the alliance. I challenge you that the delegate you send to our congress in July be given a mandate to discuss this. You must be bold,” Nzimande said. “In the central committee we have come to one correct conclusion — you may differ with us — that the way the alliance has been operating since 1994 has reached its time. It’s not the alliance that has reached its time but the way it works. We need an alternative. “...
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