As practised by our own home-grown Reds, there is nothing in their political bearing that remotely connects them to such luminaries as Marx, Stalin and Lenin
They sorely need an inner voice to return them to the ideology of the selfless.
In the absence of their consciences nudging them awake at night, Cosatu's Zwelinzima Vavi seems to be doing a good job keeping the capitalists inside the SACP on their toes.
Vavi says Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande should return full-time to his job as SACP general secretary.
Before Vavi could explain himself, those who can only benefit by keeping Nzimande in his well-paying ministerial job came down on him like a ton of bricks.
His Cosatu opposite number has tarnished Nzimande's image by implying he was only motivated by money to take the plush job in the cabinet, they say.
But after the lure of a fat salary - that is likely to keep rising against inflation - the pampered seats of a top-end BMW and the beverages Julius Malema so famously commented on, Nzimande is not likely to return to the party headquarters. The minister has grown accustomed to moving in swisher suburbs and addresses.
A classless society is best discussed driving past a squatter camp at breakneck speed in a blue-light convoy, not mixing with the hoi polloi.
Sharper in the party
As practised by our own home-grown Reds, there is nothing in their political bearing that remotely connects them to such luminaries as Marx, Stalin and Lenin
They sorely need an inner voice to return them to the ideology of the selfless.
In the absence of their consciences nudging them awake at night, Cosatu's Zwelinzima Vavi seems to be doing a good job keeping the capitalists inside the SACP on their toes.
Vavi says Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande should return full-time to his job as SACP general secretary.
Before Vavi could explain himself, those who can only benefit by keeping Nzimande in his well-paying ministerial job came down on him like a ton of bricks.
His Cosatu opposite number has tarnished Nzimande's image by implying he was only motivated by money to take the plush job in the cabinet, they say.
But after the lure of a fat salary - that is likely to keep rising against inflation - the pampered seats of a top-end BMW and the beverages Julius Malema so famously commented on, Nzimande is not likely to return to the party headquarters. The minister has grown accustomed to moving in swisher suburbs and addresses.
A classless society is best discussed driving past a squatter camp at breakneck speed in a blue-light convoy, not mixing with the hoi polloi.
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