Malema: SACP, Nzimande irrelevant
2011-06-25 22:46
Johannesburg - ANC Youth League president Julius Malema believes that Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande and the SA Communist Party (SACP) have become "irrelevant", the Sunday Times reported.
He however, "has no problem" with "Zwelinzima Vavi's Cosatu" and believed it was punching above its weight in representing the interests of workers, he told the weekly newspaper.
The SACP, he said, was redundant and lacked leadership.
"We have no problem with Cosatu, they are doing very well. Cosatu does not represent the working class in totality, they represent organised labour, that is the employed," Malema said.
"What about the unemployed, reserves, the squatter camps and all that?
"Cosatu, the SACP and ourselves should join hands to champion the struggles of the working class and the struggle should be ordinarily led by the SACP, but it is nowhere."
He continued to reject the SACP and its leader, Nzimande, calling it a mere "lobby group" within the ANC and government. Malema said it failed to live up to the ideals of slain leader Chris Hani.
"Chris was correct to say they must become a mass party so they can be felt on the ground by the masses of our people. But there is nothing tangible in terms of a programme of action coming from the party," Malema said.
- SAPA
