SACP dismisses utterances in Sowetan attributed to its General Secretary in the story “ANCYL declares war on Blade”
6 October 2015
In its story “ANCYL [KZN Province] declares war on Blade” Nzimande, SACP General Secretary, Sowetan claims: “Nzimande has maintained that the ANCYL’s recent conference was hijacked by the so-called ‘premier league’ who want to use it to further their political careers in 2017”. This has the effect of creating an impression that Sowetan contacted Comrade Blade and he made the utterances attributed to him.
The SACP wishes to state on record that its General Secretary, Comrade Blade Nzimande, was not contacted about the story. Neither did Comrade Blade ever, both in any report of the Party or any form of communication to the Central Committee and the media say that the “ANCYL’s recent conference was hijacked by the so-called ‘premier league’ contrary to what the story claims.
Comrade Blade and the SACP as its General Secretary have neither invented nor used the hollow notion of the “premier league” in its Central Committee political report and concluding press conference at the end of August, or at any stage thereafter.
For the record, the SACP has made it clear that it will tackle, head-on, factionalism, buying of votes at conferences, corruption and attempts at corporate capture of both our movement as led by the ANC and of the government if the national democratic revolution is to succeed.
However, the SACP does not have the time to engage in factional and childish politics. We will fight factionalism with principled and programmatic politics aimed at safeguarding the success of our movement’s shared vision as detailed in the Freedom Charter and strive to lay the indispensable basis for advancing to a society free from the exploitation of one person or group by another, a socialist and ultimately communist society.
The Party is presently focusing on implementing its Red October Campaign to achieve transformation in the financial sector and push for the banks that will serve the people. Our Red October Campaign has a joint focus on transformation of the media to achieve de-monopolisation, diversity, adequate and robustly independent media accountability.
The SACP wishes to advise the media to use all communication channels available, including sending questions by SMS and/or email to access the Party and its views. The SACP does not have any problem to be engaged on and criticised scientifically about its views. The problem the SACP has are the utterances attributed to it whereas they are in fact not its views but which are then used to mobilise political immaturity which would not even bother to contact the Party before formulating dangerously infantile and divisive vitriol to launch impotent attacks on the Party.
Our contacts are clearly reflected below, as in every statement that we release.
Statement issued by the SACP, 6 October 2015
