SACP leaders' phones are bugged - Nzimande
Pietermaritzburg – South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande says the party leadership is under siege with leaders’ phones being bugged by ''parasites'' trying to paralyse the African National Congress and its alliance partners.
He made the claim in Pietermaritzburg on Friday during a Moses Mabhida memorial lecture organised by the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) in KwaZulu-Natal.
"We know that conversations of our office bearers are being listened to by people who seek to drive a wedge between Cosatu and the SACP," said Nzimande.
"They creep into the night in order to carry out this agenda in the hope that this will create fertile ground for their takeover of the ANC. We know them."
He said the ANC had suffered losses in the 2016 local government elections because of factionalism and warned that if not attended to swiftly, this would cripple both the ANC and alliance.