The African National Congress Youth League and the South African Communist Party's deputy general secretary have buried the hatchet after their spat over the nationalisation of mines.
"We are particularly relieved that Comrade Jeremy Cronin engages with the Youth League's call for nationalisation after re-reading the conceptual framework we released in July 2009," the league said in a statement on Wednesday - after Cronin published a piece explaining his position and apologising for aspects of the publication that started the furore.
"The Youth League holds Comrade Jeremy Cronin in high regard and appreciates the fact that he is one of the best intellectuals produced by the revolutionary movement," it said.
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The league and the SACP clashed over the issue after Cronin published an analysis of the issues surrounding mine nationalisation.
In it, he criticised ANCYL president Julius Malema and the league's call for nationalisation, saying: "Comrade Malema hasn't always helped his case with off-the-wall sound-bytes.
"The impression of a policy being made on the hoof, individualistically, is reinforced by the fact that we are yet to see any serious attempt at a collective policy document on this matter from the ANCYL."
Malema responded to this by describing the piece penned by Cronin as "openly reactionary".
He said he did "not need the permission of white political messiahs to think".
Malema described it as "sad" that Cronin "decided to isolate me" from a league resolution in which it outlined its stance on nationalisation: "The state should be custodian of the people in its ownership, extraction, production and trade of mineral wealth beneath the soil, monopoly industries and banks."
On mineral beneficiation Malema said Cronin reduced the league's call for this to an "obsession with bling".
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