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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 .
Where a Communist Party no longer adheres to the ethics of communism, it is important to find a way of realising those ethics, of helping others who experience pain and oppression, from outside the party. This is the case in South Africa because the SACP has betrayed its own constituency.