You risk your life if you speak out against state capture - SACP's Mapaila
3 June 2016
Johannesburg - Members of the ANC and its alliance partners who speak out against state capture may be risking their lives, SACP second deputy general Solly Mapaila has said, adding that various party officials - himself included - had recently received death threats.
Speaking on the sidelines of the start of the SA Communist Party’s central committee meeting in Braamfontein on Friday, Mapaila said the threats had started in 2010, and that most of those affected "have been living with [private] security, without state involvement".
Provincial office bearers, as well as those in national leadership, had been on the receiving end of these threats, he said.
"They even try to attack [the office bearers] from time to time. It’s not a new thing, the threats to our party leadership," he said, adding that the cases were reported, but that there was no clarity on where the threats came from.