Revoke Guptas’ citizenship, or Zuma must fall, says SACP

According to a City Press report on Sunday, the SA Communist Party (SACP) has given its alliance partner the ANC an ultimatum that if numerous ills plaguing the party and the country are not dealt with it will campaign to remove President Jacob Zuma.

The demands were reportedly laid down during a meeting between SACP and ANC top leaders in Tshwane on Monday.

It wants the party to “deal with” the Guptas, former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe and the SA Social Security Agency, which was embroiled in crisis over a threat to the payments of grant beneficiaries next month that was only averted this week by the Constitutional Court. They want Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini to be fired.

They also want the Guptas’ citizenship of South Africa to be revoked and the so-called premier league faction denounced.

The ANC has reportedly asked for time, until March 27, to come up with a response.

SACP second deputy general secretary Solly Mapaila confirmed their position on the Guptas and Sassa to City Press.

He said they felt betrayed by Zuma, who they had expected would “do things differently” after they supported his election in 2007.

“We wanted a leadership that would unify the movement, but it got worse.”

The party has asked Zuma to distance himself from the Guptas before, but to no avail.