Johannesburg - The South African Communist Party (SACP) will not recall senior members who have been deployed to the government, the SABC reported on Sunday.
“Within long periods of our life in which we've been banned and excluded... our ambition was always to be actively involved in state power,” SACP deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin said.
This follows calls by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) for SACP general secretary blade Nzimande to resign from his ministerial post.
Cosatu believed the deployment of Nzimande and other senior SACP leaders to the government weakened the party and left the federation to wage a socialistic campaign on its own, the national broadcaster reported.
“Not to abandon that terrain to all others... We certainly work closely with the ANC in government... Going into government carries its challenges and risks, but it means you are taking on collective responsibility for governance,” Cronin said. - Sapa