A former leader in the SACP has called on the party to pay back R3m it allegedly received from the now defunct VBS Mutual Bank, despite the veracity of the claim coming into dispute.
Phatse Justice Pitso, a former secretary of the SACP in Limpopo, believes the party should also take action to ensure justice for the victims of the bank's collapse.
In a letter Pitso called for the SACP 'to make a public apology before the people of South Africa, the working class and the poor pensioners, stokvel clubs and burial societies of Vhembe to make a commitment to pay back the money and for you [Blade Nzimande] to resign as the leader of the South African Communist Party.
Pitsos letter comes days after former VBS board chairperson Tshifhiwa Matodzis affidavit implicated the SACP in the looting of VBS.
Matodzi alleged the SACP asked VBS to pay a R3m conference bill it owed at the Birchwood Hotel in Kempton Park in July 2017 through its then Gauteng chairperson Jacob Mamabolo.
