Some of my own comrades fuelled #FeesMustFall protests - Nzimande
31 October 2017
Pretoria – SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande has hit out at some of his own "comrades", who he said had fuelled some of the #FeesMustFall protests as part of a factionalist agenda.
He said that part of the reason he was removed as minister of higher education specifically related to the fees protests.
"I've been expecting that something (his removal from cabinet) like this would happen. Plus, also when Fees Must Fall started in 2015, I discovered in the middle of that, that actually I have far less support in government than I thought," Nzimande told News24 on Monday night.
"Some of my own comrades were actively fuelling student protests as part of [a] factionalist reaction to the communist party."