City Press.png Bugging my phone is a declaration of war, says Blade Nzimande Setumo Stone, City Press, Johannesburg, 6 January 2016 SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande has revealed that his phone has been bugged by "unknown spies" and has called it "a declaration of war". He would not disclose how he had discovered that his phone was bugged, only saying that he knew it "as a fact [and] it is outrageous [because] the SACP cannot be an enemy of this regime because we brought this regime". Speaking at the commemoration event of former South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo, Nzimande said the incident was an attack on the party. "Actually I do not understand. I want to be honest [because] I am quite angered by that. I do not know who is doing it. It is a declaration of war from whoever is actually doing it," he told media on the sidelines. Nzimande, also minister of higher education, said he had taken the matter up with his Cabinet colleague and State Security Minister David Mahlobo, and demanded that the inspector-general of intelligence, Faith Radebe, also get involved. "[Mahlobo] has assured us that there is no such [action] from their side. Because it is unheard of. How do you bug a Cabinet minister? Even if I was not Cabinet minister, I am the general secretary of the SACP. I'm not part of whatever enemy," he said. He also said that he had a "suspicion" that "some private companies that we are raising issues with may actually be doing illegal interception of phones and so on and it is a matter that we will be raising in the alliance". Earlier Nzimande spoke strongly against the emerging factions in the ANC, saying that "the biggest threat we face now is the danger of factionalism in our movement". He said it was curious that "communists were always the targets" when there is a succession race. "There are comrades who have told themselves that they are kingmakers. They want to determine who is going to be next president and they are doing it in a highly factionalised manner," said Nzimande. He said it was "a mistake to think that once you attack the communist party leaders then the party will die, [just] like those who say today that you can do without the alliance. "You cannot do that. That is irresponsible because all you doing is dividing the progressive forces," he said. From: http://city-press.news24.com/News/bugging-my-phone-a-declaration-of-war-says -an-irate-blade-nzimande-20160106 -- -- 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.
