The SACP has noted the recent statement by the DA spokesperson on Higher Education and Training, Wilmot James. This racist and apologist of monopoly capital has made it his hobby to attack the integrity of the General Secretary of the SACP, Cde Blade Nzimande including his latest manoeuvres to play him against his cabinet colleague, Cde Naledi Pandor. Wilmot James needs help as he has become obsessed with Nzimande and cannot tolerate him for the fact that he is a communist.

Wilmot James uses his platform as a shadow Minister, a position he will hold till he dies as the DA will never rule our country, to launch a sophisticated class offensive against the programme of our government to build a developmental state. In his efforts to protect white privilege, James feels no shame at trying to undermine government's concerted efforts to speed up transformation in the higher education and training system. The ANC led government and Cde Blade in particular will not be deterred in this journey to transform the South African state in order for it to overcome the systemic racially skewed development imposed on our people.

Wilmot James can scream from the rooftops but one thing we can guarantee is that change in inevitable!! His nostalgia for white supremacy and class exploitation of the majority of our people will be defeated. The landscape of Higher Education in this country will be radically transformed under an ANC led government.

We will construct an activist state that will continue to intervene to improve the lives of our ordinary people, including through the work of the ministerial committee to review the science, technology and innovation landscape and to assess how well it can support development (we are certain Wilmot missed the focus here - support development)