This week, Professor Raymond Suttner discusses "Being or not being a communist in South Africa today".
From 1969/70 until 2006 I had been a fairly orthodox member of the South African Communist Party, and I broke ranks over the party’s conduct during the Jacob Zuma rape trial and its collusion in the corruption of the years of his state presidency, dramatically illustrated in the diversion of funds intended for poverty relief towards refurbishing Zuma’s Nkandla home into a luxurious mansion. I have had no official contact since then and very little interaction with individuals who remain members, he writes.
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