Riyaz Patel
SACP Secretary General Blade Nzimande has strongly criticised ANC-led Alliance leaders who after being appointed to leadership positions, “tend to think they are superior than those they are meant to serve.”
“Those elected to leadership positions in the country to serve the people and not the other way around,” said a fiery Nzimande while launching the party’s 2019-2020 Red October campaign in Mthatha, Eastern Cape.
He said the main aim of the campaign is to remind fellow communists to go back to their communities to help effect positive change.
“We are saying this comrades, because the fact of the matter is, despite the progress that has been made since 1994, we are still faced with a situation that many of our communities are in distress.”
Nzimande said the reason there was tension within leadership structures is that those who have been appointed to these positions tend to think they are superior than those they are meant to serve.
Nzimande directed SACP members who campaigned for the ANC during election season to go back to those same areas to dispel notions that people only matter once elections come around.
“So that our people don’t say we only miss them when we want their votes. We need to tell them that we have returned to address the problems they are faced with and we are here to solve them.”
He appealed to Alliance members ANC and Cosatu to join the SACP in “deepening” its work among communities.
