THE SA Communist Party (SACP) has voiced its support for the Zondo commission of inquiry in what is seen as an apparent dig at former president Jacob Zuma.
The party’s augmented central committee meeting, held on March 16, said all South Africans should cooperate with the Zondo commission.
This comes amid the furore that Zuma would defy a constitutional court order and not appear before the commission.
In a statement, the SACP’s central committee said it ‘strongly condemned the regrouping of the post-Polokwane New Tendency that now coalesces around attacking the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture’.
“Elements behind this manoeuvre now appear to be destined for a counterrevolutionary offensive against some of the institutions of our democracy,” the central committee said in a statement.
“These elements are deliberately intensifying divisions in our broader movement and sowing society wide chaos, to try and stop the law from taking its course. The SACP resolutely reiterates its stance that every person required to appear before the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture to account for their actions must do so.”
The central committee further stated that no person, regardless to their social, political and class standing in our society, must be allowed to hold the development, deepening, and widening of the country’s democracy and accountability at ransom.
It also called the Zondo commission to leave no stone unturned, in ensuring that those required to appear before it do so.
“Likewise, the Constitutional Court must firmly exercise its independence against any person who thinks that they are above the rule of law, who defies its judgments,” said the central committee.
“In the same vein, no democracy can leave unattended the threats for a coup or civil war made from within such quarters. Therefore, the SACP calls upon law enforcement agencies to act decisively against those who have either made or are still making such barbaric threats.”
- Inside Politics
