Dr Bonginkosi Emmanuel Nzimande (Blade)

Education Minister Blade Nzimande was listed as moving to Home Affairs a promotion...

CritiquesThe loudest criticism of an early conference has come from the ANC's ally the SACP Secretary General and former Zuma ally Blade Nzimande...

She is a senior South African Communist Party leader and is close to SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande...

Several senior South African Communist Party members including Blade Nzimande have complained bitterly that their telephones are being monitored...

Ministers most associated with the Communist Party and whom Zuma no longer trusts may be on the chopping block: Rob Davies (Trade and Industry) Tina Joemat Patterson (Energy) and Blade Nzimande ( Higher Education)...

The SACP Secretary General Blade Nzimande also addressed the gathering to voice his anger at the Premier League's machinations in favour of Dlamini-Zuma...

Motsoeneng has always boasted about his closeness to politicians including Zuma while Muthambi has been his biggest supporter protecting him from any rebuke from ANC headquarters and insulating him from censure coming from Parliament and even the South African Communist Party General Secretary Blade Nzimande...

In a thinly veiled attack on the increase in factional support the South African Communist Party led by Blade Nzimande also weighed in: 'attempts at factional corrupt and corporate capture of our movement is condemned and the use of money to buy votes stifle internal democratic processes and isolate the alliance and its partners… appears to be increasing in the run up to 2017'...

The pro-Zuma SACP faction is led by General Secretary Blade Nzimande his deputy Jeremy Cronin and the SACP National Chairman and former National Union of Mineworkers' President the Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana together with the KwaZulu-Natal provincial SACP...

Dlamini is a close ally of Zuma and of the SA Communist Party leader Blade Nzimande both of whom have been at loggerheads with NUMSA leaders and seven other unions...