Blade makes cutting remarks in blunt attack on the Guptas
'The most immediate threats facing our liberation are the parasitic networks that have a say in the state and our economy‚ at the centre of which is the Gupta family'
South African Communist Party General Secretary Blade Nzimande has lashed out at the controversial Gupta family‚ labelling them a threat to the ANC and the country. Delivering a message of support at the 6th Central Committee of the Congress of South African Trade Unions in Pretoria on Monday‚ Nzimande accused the Gupta family of interfering in South Africa‚ using certain members of the ANC and government officials to push their interests and agendas. "The most immediate threats facing our liberation are the parasitic networks that have a say in the state and our economy‚ at the centre of which is the Gupta family‚ which is working with some of the most senior comrades in our movement and the state‚" said Nzimande. "I don't know what luck does this family have that made them leave their own country of origin and try to take a country that belongs to other people and even worse try to take their wealth and economy; and then we are told they are fighting white monopoly capital‚" he sa...
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