The SA Communist Party (SACP) hit out at what it called former president Thabo Mbeki's attempt to rewrite history, saying he would not succeed.
The party did not take kindly to Mbeki's move to deny that he bullied and suppressed leaders of the ANC's alliance partners - the SACP and Cosatu.
Mbeki used an example of how SACP deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin was once severely sanctioned for saying that he marginalised him [Cronin] and the party's leader Blade Nzimande when he was at the helm of the governing party.
Mbeki even went to the extent of recounting a meeting in 2005 where he says former Limpopo premier Sello Moloto made a "startling" observation that he had been lied to that Mbeki ran meetings of the ANC national executive committee with an iron fist, he wrote yesterday in the second instalment of a series of letters to be published.
Last week Mbeki said in the first letter that he never implicated Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, former ANC treasurer Mathews Phosa and former human settlements minister Tokyo Sexwale in a plot to remove him from office.
In 2007, when Mbeki got ousted, one of the reasons his detractors mentioned was that he was marginalising leaders of the ANC's alliance partners.
Yesterday, Mbeki recounted how Cronin had to offer an unqualified apology to the ANC NEC for telling Irish historian Helena Sheehan in an interview that he and Nzimande were marginalised by the former president. He also said in the interview Mbeki was turning ANC into a Zanu-PF.
". the NEC severely reprimanded Cde Cronin and reserved its right to take firm action should there be a repeat of such transgressions of accepted conduct by any NEC member," Mbeki wrote.
Dumisani Makhaye, ANC KZN leader and one of Mbeki's well-known loyalists, lashed out at Cronin, accusing him of making himself a "white Messiah".
Mbeki never reprimanded the late Makhaye for the racial slur.
However, what the NEC meeting did not explain or clarify was why Cronin, who was also Deputy General Secretary of the SACP a member of the ANC NEC, had found it necessary to communicate outright falsehoods about the ANC to Dr Sheehan!
SACP spokesman Alex Mashilo blasted Mbeki: "The fact of the matter is that it was under Mbeki [that] the alliance experienced its longest conflict, culminating in Polokwane. We all know what happened in Polokwane. Is comrade Thabo saying the movement was wrong?
"Why is he not following processes? Is it not under Thabo Mbeki that comrades were called derogatory names? The fact is that under Thabo Mbeki there was systematic marginalisation of the SACP and Cosatu."
I never bullied the left - Thabo Mbeki
The SA Communist Party (SACP) hit out at what it called former president Thabo Mbeki's attempt to rewrite history, saying he would not succeed.
The party did not take kindly to Mbeki's move to deny that he bullied and suppressed leaders of the ANC's alliance partners - the SACP and Cosatu.
Mbeki used an example of how SACP deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin was once severely sanctioned for saying that he marginalised him [Cronin] and the party's leader Blade Nzimande when he was at the helm of the governing party.
Mbeki even went to the extent of recounting a meeting in 2005 where he says former Limpopo premier Sello Moloto made a "startling" observation that he had been lied to that Mbeki ran meetings of the ANC national executive committee with an iron fist, he wrote yesterday in the second instalment of a series of letters to be published.
Last week Mbeki said in the first letter that he never implicated Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, former ANC treasurer Mathews Phosa and former human settlements minister Tokyo Sexwale in a plot to remove him from office.
In 2007, when Mbeki got ousted, one of the reasons his detractors mentioned was that he was marginalising leaders of the ANC's alliance partners.
Yesterday, Mbeki recounted how Cronin had to offer an unqualified apology to the ANC NEC for telling Irish historian Helena Sheehan in an interview that he and Nzimande were marginalised by the former president. He also said in the interview Mbeki was turning ANC into a Zanu-PF.
". the NEC severely reprimanded Cde Cronin and reserved its right to take firm action should there be a repeat of such transgressions of accepted conduct by any NEC member," Mbeki wrote.
Dumisani Makhaye, ANC KZN leader and one of Mbeki's well-known loyalists, lashed out at Cronin, accusing him of making himself a "white Messiah".
Mbeki never reprimanded the late Makhaye for the racial slur.
However, what the NEC meeting did not explain or clarify was why Cronin, who was also Deputy General Secretary of the SACP a member of the ANC NEC, had found it necessary to communicate outright falsehoods about the ANC to Dr Sheehan!
SACP spokesman Alex Mashilo blasted Mbeki: "The fact of the matter is that it was under Mbeki [that] the alliance experienced its longest conflict, culminating in Polokwane. We all know what happened in Polokwane. Is comrade Thabo saying the movement was wrong?
"Why is he not following processes? Is it not under Thabo Mbeki that comrades were called derogatory names? The fact is that under Thabo Mbeki there was systematic marginalisation of the SACP and Cosatu."
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