Dr Bonginkosi Emmanuel Nzimande (Blade)

Prominent are the SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande and his deputy Jeremy Cronin...

Zuma is said to be considering having two deputy presidents Motlanthe and either ANC national Chairwoman Baleka Mbete or Blade Nzimande General Secretary of the South African Communist Party...

But the left wants Blade Nzimande the SA Communist Party's General Secretary as deputy president; his rival is Baleka Mbete ANC Chairwoman and Deputy President...

Zuma’s leading backers Blade Nzimande of the South African Communist Party and Zwelinzima Vavi of the Congress of South African Trade Unions are campaigning against Motlanthe...

Blade Nzimande General Secretary of the SACP says this is 'a classic example of parasitic capitalism at its worst ' and Zwelinzima Vavi the General Secretary of Cosatu denounced 'parasitic comprador capitalists'...

In October Zuma took the South African Communist Party's Blade Nzimande and Congress of SA Trade Unions' Zwelinzima Vavi on a 'private' visit to Equatorial Guinea as guests of that country's dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema who presides over one of the most corrupt regimes in Africa with an abysmal record on human rights and labour relations...

Blade Nzimande the SACP General Secretary said it was doomed to fail...

The SACP’s Blade Nzimande and Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi show a united front but there are signs of restlessness within their movements with members disagreeing about whether to support Zuma or Motlanthe as the ANC’s presidential candidate next year...

Madisha was ousted from his positions in Cosatu and the SACP for ‘bringing Cosatu in disrepute’: he had attacked Zuma and also revealed that SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande got a 500 000 rand (US$48 000) undeclared party donation from a businessman...

The SACP’s Blade Nzimande says it wants more of its members on the ANC’s candidate list for the 2009 elections and more appointed as national and provincial ministers mayors and local councillors with a ‘deployment committee’ to select its people...

The SACP's General Secretary Blade Nzimande condemns 'the unilateral announcement of the election date and the impossibility of implementing satisfactory conditions for elections in such a short space of time'...