Dr Blade Bonginkosi Emmanuel Nzimande (Blade)

The SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande said his party would have liked to see more working-class members and that business was over-represented...

Worse than Mbeki We understand that senior ANC leaders such as Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe ANC Treasurer Mathews Phosa and General Secretary Gwede Mantashe along with Zwelinzima Vavi of the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (Cosatu) and Blade Nzimande of the SA Communist Party (SACP) asked Zuma to reprimand Malema publicly...

More so because we hear the pressure on him to apologise came from some of his most senior allies such as KwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize leader of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) Zwelinzima Vavi and South African Communist Party (SACP) Secretary General Blade Nzimande...

Backed by behind-the-scenes pressure from the Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and the SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande Patel has however been struggling to claim control of micro- and macroeconomic policy development hitherto the closely guarded responsibility of the South African Treasury...

Vavi and SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande appear torn between their association with the new government and the demands of their members but the tension is less so far than that which was routine under ex-President Mbeki...

Last December South African Communist Party Secretary General and now Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande said that COPE would be funded through the proceeds of the Elephant Consortium's stake in Telkom...

Zuma's strategic advisor Blade Nzimande General Secretary of the South African Communist Party heads the Ministry for Higher Education and Training...

He has faced a vicious political campaign (mainly orchestrated by Blade Nzimande General Secretary of the SACP) which aired gory details of his private life including a false story about a young woman claiming to be pregnant with his child...

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...