Blade Nzimande Steps Down as SACP General Secretary

SABC NEWS reported that, Dr Blade Nzimande is finally stepping down as General Secretary after leading the South African Communist Party for 24 years.

Nzimande said he was leaving a stronger, bigger, and coherent SACP.

The Party has been criticised for piggy-backing on the ANC ticket for government positions. Blade Nzimande and other top officials are in government positions.

He added that the Party faces a number of challenges, but has survived some of it’s former leaders and members trying to liquidate the SACP.

Nzimande took over the reigns of the Party in 1998, he said by then SAPC had 10 000 members but now it has over 300 000.