SACP Gauteng postpones Red October march until further notice

17 October 2013, Johannesburg

Using some innocuous by-law to prohibit our march by not granting us a permit, the City of Johannesburg Metro Police has left us as the SACP with no option other than to postpone our Red October march to the Banking Council of South Africa, Standard Bank and the Johannesburg Housing Company.

The march meant to take place tomorrow, Friday, 18 October 2013, to challenge banks to play a strategic role in national development, has been postponed until further notice.

The postponement results from refusal by the metro police to grant the SACP the permit to march, citing some non-existent requirements. The SACP condemns this undemocratic behaviour as a response in practice of the parasitic bourgeoisie to the threat of a deepening national democratic transformation.

We strongly believe that this anti-worker and anti-poor attitude reflects the active collusion between the Johannesburg Housing Company, in particular one Mr Vermaak and some elements in the City of Johannesburg.

Mr Vermaak is the foremost ideological representative of all bourgeois attempts to stall and frustrate our actions, in particular our demand to the Standard bank to rescind its funding of an illegal transactions of a building stolen from the people of Newtown in Johannesburg.

The SACP will not cow down to the tactics intended to bully us into submission. Instead we are more determined to intensify our onslaught against corruption wherever it exists. The SACP will ensure that the planned Red October march goes ahead at a date to be announced in line with the commitment made to all those communities affected by socio-economic and political issues we have raised.

Issued by the SACP Gauteng Province

Contact:

Mamabolo Jacob - Provincial Secretary 082 884 1868

Lucian Segami - Provincial Spokesperson 079 522 0098