South African Communist Party (SACP) general-secretary Blade Nzimande yesterday launched yet another stinging attack on President Jacob Zuma's government, saying it is worse than that of former president Thabo Mbeki.
"Imperialist conspiracies, regime change threats are invoked in order to justify this dangerous drift," Nzimande said while addressing Cosatu's central committee meeting in Irene, south of Pretoria.
"Assassinations of ANC and alliance cadres often go unsolved, and an emerging pattern of intimidation is apparent.
"There is an attempt to emulate a Putin (Russian President Vladimir Putin) style, authoritarian, low-intensity democracy, with meetings reported between this faction and their counterparts in Russia."
Nzimande also attacked Zuma, saying SACP members who are cabinet ministers are not serving an individual but the people.
"There is a growing authorisation and presidentialism. History is repeating itself," he said. The SACP played a vital role in the removal of Mbeki. Nzimande admitted that the ANC was in trouble and that there was an internal stalemate in the party's national executive committee (NEC), the highest decision-making body between elective conferences.
"The NEC can't provide leadership for the alliance," Nzimande said. "There is a faction in the ANC that does what it likes."
The ANC NEC is facing criticism for failing to remove Zuma at its meeting at the weekend. Nzimande reiterated that Zuma must step down for the country to move forward.
He vowed that the party was refusing to be blackmailed and would not keep quite when wrong things are being done.
Nzimande said the most immediate threat facing the revolution was the parasitic networks encircling the state and economy and at centre of which is the Gupta family working with some of the most senior comrades in the movement and the state.
"We have sometimes been accused why the pre-occupation with the Gupta family. This is another lie. When the Kebbles tried to capture some of our comrades in the ANC Youth League, we stood firm as the SACP. Till today we say no to Kebbleism, Guptarisation or any other form of capture of our movement or state."
'Zuma govt is worse than Mbeki's' - Nzimande
South African Communist Party (SACP) general-secretary Blade Nzimande yesterday launched yet another stinging attack on President Jacob Zuma's government, saying it is worse than that of former president Thabo Mbeki.
"Imperialist conspiracies, regime change threats are invoked in order to justify this dangerous drift," Nzimande said while addressing Cosatu's central committee meeting in Irene, south of Pretoria.
"Assassinations of ANC and alliance cadres often go unsolved, and an emerging pattern of intimidation is apparent.
"There is an attempt to emulate a Putin (Russian President Vladimir Putin) style, authoritarian, low-intensity democracy, with meetings reported between this faction and their counterparts in Russia."
Nzimande also attacked Zuma, saying SACP members who are cabinet ministers are not serving an individual but the people.
"There is a growing authorisation and presidentialism. History is repeating itself," he said. The SACP played a vital role in the removal of Mbeki. Nzimande admitted that the ANC was in trouble and that there was an internal stalemate in the party's national executive committee (NEC), the highest decision-making body between elective conferences.
"The NEC can't provide leadership for the alliance," Nzimande said. "There is a faction in the ANC that does what it likes."
The ANC NEC is facing criticism for failing to remove Zuma at its meeting at the weekend. Nzimande reiterated that Zuma must step down for the country to move forward.
He vowed that the party was refusing to be blackmailed and would not keep quite when wrong things are being done.
Nzimande said the most immediate threat facing the revolution was the parasitic networks encircling the state and economy and at centre of which is the Gupta family working with some of the most senior comrades in the movement and the state.
"We have sometimes been accused why the pre-occupation with the Gupta family. This is another lie. When the Kebbles tried to capture some of our comrades in the ANC Youth League, we stood firm as the SACP. Till today we say no to Kebbleism, Guptarisation or any other form of capture of our movement or state."
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