China: Regime in Crisis

Chinese Communist Party Strengthens Grip on South Africa

Chinese Communist Party Strengthens Grip on South Africa
Chinese leader Xi Jinping (L) inspects a military honor guard at the Union Building in Pretoria on July 24, 2018, during his official state visit to South Africa. PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP/Getty Images
Trevor Loudon
Trevor Loudon
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is tightening its grip on South Africa on many levels.

The secretary general of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), Ace Magashule, has announced that ANC cadres will be trained by the CCP before next year’s South African general elections. The ANC will be sending around 300 cadres to the CCP’s training academy to “learn more about party discipline and loyalty.”

Trevor Loudon
Trevor Loudon
contributor
Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on mainstream politics. He is best known for his book “Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress” and his similarly themed documentary film “Enemies Within.”