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Johannesburg - SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande
condemned what he called an attempt by "tenderpreneurs" to steal the
ANC for personal enrichment, according to a report on Tuesday.
Nzimande told The New Age newspaper in an interview that the
SA Communist Party was "seriously concerned" that entrepreneurs who
sought control of the ruling party could also sell it to the highest bidder.
He said this was a challenge facing the ANC and its alliance structure, including the SACP and the unions.
"The danger of people who do that is that they can even
sell the country to the highest bidder," Nzimande was quoted as saying.
Nzimande believed that those who had catapulted President
Jacob Zuma to the helm of the ANC had little to do with genuine concerns to
elect quality party leadership.
"I have no doubt that a lot of the people who supported Zuma at Polokwane did so because they wanted genuine changes in the way the ANC was being run," Nzimande told The New Age.
"But it is clear to us now that there are people who
went to Polokwane because they were hoping Zuma would help them to build a
kleptocratic state."
The ANC Youth League was seen by many as influential when it
came to choosing leaders but Nzimande disagreed, according to the report.
"There are no kingmakers. If there were, it would be
the branch representatives that elect leaders," Nzimande said.
He said the SACP was concerned about the growing culture
within the alliance structures to use money as a tool to campaign for
leadership elections.
Nzimande said this was not limited to the ANC but applied
also to its allies.
