By Akani Nkuna
South African Communist Party (SACP) Chairperson Blade Nzimande has warned the movement’s leadership against drifting from its alliance with the African National Congress and Cosatu to pursuing an independent election bid.
This is according to a scathing document reportedly circulated among party leaders.
The document alleges factional behaviour has seeped into the organisation, disrupting internal cohesion and democracy, and urges a recommitment to the alliance’s strategic objectives.
The widely shared document details the failures and lack of coherence within the party, which Nzimande attributes to the SACP’s “wrong interpretation” of contesting elections alone.
“Internally, the party now faces several structural and ideological challenges that impede full implementation. Chief among these is the erosion of internal cohesion. Democratic centralism, the principle of debate before decision, unity after decision, have been unevenly applied,” said Nzimande in the document.
“In some structures, factional behaviours and personality-driven politics have supplanted collective
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