TheTimes.jpg Blade worried by anti-Red talk Fatima Asmal, The Times, Johannesburg, 16 November, 2015 He was in high spirits as he arrived for the SA Communist Party's seventh KwaZulu-Natal congress and even stopped to buy a nifty red feathered hat for a hundred bucks. But Blade Nzimande, the SACP's general secretary, made no secret of the fact that there were "stresses and divisions" in his party's political alliance with the ANC. The Communist Party congress was being held on the Asherville campus of the eThekwini Technical and Vocational Education and Training College. Growing "anti-communist sentiment" was worrying, Nzimande told The Times. "We see an anti-communist stand that rears its head now and again. We understand that there will always be that in the ANC, but we are worried because in some of the provinces this is beginning to grow in a way that is quite dangerous." A few days ago Sihle Zikalala was elected chairman of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal. After being announced as the winner he refused to shake hands with SACP chairman Senzeni Zokwana. Themba Mthembu, the SACP secretary in the province, said that this had "disturbed" him. ANC members who held "powerful positions" in the province had "anti-SACP sentiments", he said. Nzimande said that the hostile members "don't own the ANC". "We've always being saying that the ANC belongs to all of us. "We have hope in the ANC. We have hope in the wisdom of ordinary members of the ANC. "I don't think our people like to see the alliance fighting, to see the throwing of stones at each other." Nzimande said that the race for positions at the ANC's 2017 national elective congress had already begun. "This is dividing our organisation, not just the ANC. It's causing strains and stresses in the alliance. "It's completely unhealthy." Nzimande called on the ANC to act in a way that would unite itself and the alliance. "We all have a responsibility but there is a particular responsibility on the leadership of the ANC to unite itself, to unite the alliance, and to seek to unite the country. "We feel that the ANC should make an added effort towards that. They are not doing enough. "As the SACP we feel very strongly that we need to find a way to manage outgoing presidents. "This has caused us problems, which led to Polokwane in the past, which began to divide the movement. "There are people who have told themselves that they are going to be key members who are already factionalising us. "It sours alliance relations. We can't afford that each time there's a transition there are ructions in the organisation," Nzimande said. From: <http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2015/11/16/Blade-worried-by-anti-Red-ta lk> http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2015/11/16/Blade-worried-by-anti-Red-tal k -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
