Mpumalanga PEC statement

3 April 2008

SACP Mpumalanga province met at Emalahleni on the 30 March 2008.

We noted with regret the passing on of our revolutionary leader, Deputy National Chair, cde Ncumisa Kondlo. Her contribution to the struggle of class emancipation is respected by all en sundry, we truly dip our banner in her honour.

We strongly believe that in her honour, we’ll continue to carry on and take the baton forward, build the SACP, ANC and COSATU. Our 12^th Congress resolutions shall remain our guiding beacons in advancing and strengthening our road to socialism.

We regard the ANC as a movement, historically and today that represents and advance people’s interests as informed by the objectives of the National Democratic Revolution. We therefore agreed to continue swelling the ranks of our revolutionary movement, influence it to remain an organization that first and foremost looks after the interests of the working class and the poor. We therefore have a keen interest on the on coming ANC provincial conference.

We further resolved to intensify our call for the nationalization of Mittal Steel and Sasol. We believe in the full implementation of the freedom charter, especially the clause that says the wealth of the country shall be equitably redistributed. We therefore agreed to draft a revolutionary programme that shall assist with the attainment of the above.

We have noted with dismay the continuous land dispossession of the working class by the so called market prices, exorbitant to be above working class affordability. We believe that property hikes, perpetuated by land prices, perpetuate the legacy of colonialism of a special type in South Africa. We strongly believe that land is a key means of production that should be held by the state on behalf of the people.

We resolved to intensify our land and Agrarian Campaign in the whole province, especially in the district of Gert Sibande where there’re still farm evictions and constant harassment of farm dwellers and workers.

We fully support the Mpumalanga Department of Education in dismissing the principal of Ermelo Hoer Skool, transformation in South Africa cannot be held at ransom by a few re-actionery racists, who think that they can cling to their past racist privileges.

We further resolved to intensify our support to the people of Swaziland in their struggle for democracy in their land.

We hope that ultimately, democracy shall prevail in Zimbabwe through free and fair elections, which shall deliver the working class of that country from capitalist driven poverty.

Issued by the Mpumalanga SACP

Contact: Bonakele Majuba (Provincial Secretary)@ 0828855940