Business Day Good.jpg Communist leaders not 'tainted' Jeremy Cronin, Letters, Business Day, Johannesburg, 14 June 2016 Natasha Marrian (Tainted communist party needs solid spring-cleaning, June 9) lauds the South African Communist Party (SACP) for the stance of our recent central committee on the Gupta family, among other things. However, the main thrust of her column is that the communist party should clean out its older generation of "tainted leaders". I've no personal problem with a very capable younger generation of communists taking over in 2017 at our July congress. However, Marrian's accusation of "taint" requires qualification, in particular her argument that, "SACP deputy chairman Thulas Nxesi led the Cabinet task team on Nkandla, which found no wrongdoing by (President Jacob) Zuma". The public protector also found no wrongdoing by Zuma. Advocate Thuli Madonsela ruled, however, there was personal benefit and a reasonable portion should be repaid. Nxesi was appointed public works minister at the end of 2011, several years after public works expenditure on Nkandla had occurred. In 2012, he established a task team to investigate departmental wrongdoing on Nkandla. In January 2013, the team's findings were published and shared with the public protector. The remedial actions proposed by Nxesi's task team were immediately acted upon by the department. A year later, the public protector's published remedial actions to be undertaken by public works coincided with those already under way. Madonsela has acknowledged this, commending public works for implementing remedial actions long before any Constitutional Court judgment. It's instructive the EFF and DA, no friends to the SACP or ANC, didn't cite Nxesi as a respondent in their court case. Marrian accuses when even our loudest opponents refrain. Jeremy Cronin Via e-mail From: http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/letters/2016/06/14/letter-communist-leaders- not-tainted -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/004d01d1c612%24ac1da530%240458ef90%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
