Business Day Good.jpg Nzimande tells youth their future depends on delinking money and politics Karl Gernetzky, Business Day, Johannesburg, 3 July 2016 Tripartite alliance members are contested terrain, and a failure to delink money and politics will prejudice the economic and political prospects of the youth, according to South African Communist Party (SACP) general secretary Blade Nzimande. Addressing a Young Communist League rally in Johannesburg on Sunday, Nzimande called for an "overwhelming victory" for the ANC in the August 3 polls. The gathering marked the 40th anniversary of youth uprisings in 1976. Nzimande said all tripartite alliance partners were "contested terrain", and the first choice of "forces that want to control this country" was simply to capture the alliance. "There are forces from outside this country, possibly working with forces inside this country, who have no interest in seeing a successful and revolutionary alliance." Tensions have emerged in the tripartite alliance over recent months, with the SACP having broken ranks with both the ANC and COSATU on the issue of state capture and the closure of the bank accounts of the Gupta family. Nzimande said on Sunday that the broader problem was simply that money was being used to capture individuals more broadly, something reinforced by increasing "depoliticisation" of members and "anti-intellectualism". "The ANC is not a vehicle for self-enrichment, it is a people's movement," Nzimande said. "If we fail to defeat the influence of money you have no future." The SACP and COSATU are firmly supporting the ANC in the forthcoming polls, despite both previously maintaining that candidates must be selected based on community preferences and not factional politics. The SACP in Gauteng in June suspended some of its members allegedly linked to unrest over the ANC decision to select Thoko Didiza as the party candidate for the Tshwane metro. COSATU president Sdumo Dlamini on Sunday appealed for support for the ANC regardless over unhappiness over candidate selection. "Vote for the ANC ward councillor whether you are happy with him or not, because this is not about him, it is about the ANC," Dlamini said. The ANC was the only party capable of improving the lives of people, said Dlamini, hitting out at the DA for wanting to win metros in order to privatise as many services as a possible. "When the ANC says it wants to in-source, the DA says it wants to outsource," Dlamini said. From: <http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/07/03/nzimande-tells-youth-their-futu re-depends-on-delinking-money-and-politics> http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/07/03/nzimande-tells-youth-their-futur e-depends-on-delinking-money-and-politics __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13745 (20160703) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- 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]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/006901d1d545%24432df4c0%24c989de40%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
