This charge is problematic because it insinuates that both Maile and Khawe are “Gupta family” proxies in Gauteng, and they represent a “Guptarised generational mix”, hell-bent on milking state coffers to benefit their cronies or allies.

In a cynical way, both SACP and Cosatu charge that they will “directly contest against any tendency towards a Guptarised generational mix”. The two enjoy popular support from the league of the ANC, in line with their principled calls for “generational mix” in the leadership collective of the ANC. It is public knowledge by now that Maile and Khawe are enjoying groundswell support to be elected to the positions of deputy chairperson and provincial secretary, respectively. The so-called two left and socialist formations are allegedly “deeply concerned that (these) Gupta-type forces have hijacked, and therefore dressed themselves in a revolutionary costume known as “generational mix”, meaning a dialectical fusing of the experienced old and young leadership in our broad movement”. The two are former leaders of the ANC Youth League in the province, and they are both vying for key positions ahead of the scheduled ANC Gauteng Provincial Conference in July 2018. This despite its pious platitudes about “building working class unity”, “respect for independence of alliance components”, and “non-interference in ANC electoral contests”.Īt its joint bilateral statement with Cosatu, it threw a plethora of slanderous insinuations, tacitly directed towards MEC Lebogang Maile and Emfuleni mayor Lehana Khawe. Regrettably, the party that claims to be vanguard of the working class and the poor has reduced itself to an apron string for sectarian and divisive interests within the ANC-headed alliance. The SACP in Gauteng always purports to be a political formation that upholds the highest pedigree of political correctness, revolutionary morality and leadership virtue. If you’re rejigging your budgets, and it comes to choosing between frothy milk and Daily Maverick, we hope you might reconsider that cappuccino. Our country is going to be considerably worse off if we don’t have a strong, sustainable news media. We can't survive on hope and our own determination.

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