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Comrade Blade Nzimande, General Secretary, South African Communist Party, Johannesburg. 1 June, 2017 Dear Comrade Blade Nzimande, A few days ago I listened on television to your important address at the Central Committee Meeting of COSATU. In this regard I noted the significant reference you made to what the late Oliver Tambo had said concerning the absolute need always to tell the truth, and your insistence that the SACP remains loyal to this directive. In this context I was moved by your passionate communication of the truths you conveyed about our struggle and movement, as the SACP sees these. I must confess that I agreed with much of what you said. However I decided to write to you to convey to you my concern about elements of your address with which I disagree. These are the comments you made concerning the period when I served as President of the ANC and the Republic. [Please note that I apologise that the quotations below may not be entirely a verbatim reproduction of what you said. Nevertheless I am certain that they accurately capture the essence of what you said.] During your Address you said something to the effect that the Zuma Administration has displayed "ambitions for an imperial presidential system". You then said that "this was one of the reasons why we said uMbeki akahambe because he wanted to create an imperial presidency." You said that as the Tripartite Alliance, relating to the Mbeki and Zuma Administrations, "we are back there...history repeats itself." "Zonke izinto which happened during the time of Mbeki are happening again." To illustrate this, you went on to say: "There were e-mails then. There are e-mails now that appeared yesterday." You went on to Say that "many of us are now being listened to." In this context you said: "There is a rogue intelligence unit that operates outside the law which is listening to other comrades...the very same thing esasiyilwel' uMbeki is happening today". What I have said about "my concern about elements of your Address with which I disagree" relates to the matters in your address I have detailed. More representative of your views in this regard is the bold statement you made that "Zonke izinto which happened during the time of Mbeki are happening again." I am very interested that you substantiate this startling and extraordinary statement. With regard to the details you mentioned in this regard, I would be obliged to you if you: * detailed how my alleged "imperial presidential system" manifested itself; * detailed how the then 'hoax e-mails' compare with the recent alleged 'Gupta' e-mails; * detailed evidence of the existence and operations of a 'rogue intelligence unit' which operated during the period of my Administration; and, * detailed these other many things (zonke izjnto) which happened during our administration which are now happening under the Zuma Administration. More specifically, it would be very good if you also detailed facts to substantiate the grave allegation that "the serious illegalities or misdemeanours which occurred during the time of Mbeki are happening again during the time of Zuma". All the valuable information you would provide would help critically to explain the historic and historical significance of what happened during the period leading up to, during, and after the 2007 ANC National Conference, thus to make a more politically accurate and scientific assessment of the challenges which faced the national democratic movement then as well as now. This would help critically to explain what our revolutionary democratic movement must do correctly to address the important challenges you posed in your Address at the 2017 COSATU CC meeting. I am certain that you will therefore understand the importance of your honest and frank response to the request I am making to you, as indicated above. I am making my appeal to you in this regard moved by the very correct observation you made during your Address at the COSATU CC that as revolutionaries we must live up to the Oliver Tambo injunction that - we must tell the truth, even if it coincides with what the enemy says. 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