The SACP Gauteng Qina Msebenzi/Tia Mosomi Election Campaign descents onto Johannesburg, the Heartland of the Industrial Proletariat
13 March 2014
The SACP Gauteng Province will accelerate the massive roll out of its Qina Msebenzi/Tia Mosomi Election Campaign to Cleveland in the City of Johannesburg, the heartland of the industrial proletariat. The campaign is currently in full swing in the District of Sedibeng. The SACP Red Brigade is mobilising workers for the whole week of the 17-20 March 2014 to vote for the African National Congress (ANC) in the forthcoming national and provincial elections.
The campaign has been successful since its launch on the 25 February 2014 in the district of Oupa Phasha (Ekurhuleni). The campaign spread to Roslyn in Tshwane on the 3-7 March 2014. The campaign seeks to strengthen the unity of workers with the rest of the historically oppressed African, Coloured and Indian masses, especially their working class families.
The campaign seeks to empower workers politically and ideologically to prevail over imperialist sponsored calls to betray the revolutionary movement of Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Joe Slovo and Chris Hani. We are deeply humbled and inspired by the courage, determination and commitment which workers have pledged to the Congress movement thus far.
City Presss ludicrous claims of a 45% electoral defeat of the ANC in Gauteng
The SACP Gauteng is deeply shocked and dismayed by the ludicrous and unscientific claims by the City Press newspaper that the ANC will only receive 45% votes in the forthcoming elections. These apocalyptic tales of the City Press article of last Sunday are apparently based on interactions with branches of the ANC. As can be inferred from the said article, these branches relied on information conveyed to them during two (2) ANC meetings convened by the provincial leadership. In other words, the information and data that City Press used was not from primary sources, but from secondary and or even third sources that first received such information through a word of mouth in a meeting. City Press thus far did not provide any documentary or primary source as the basis of its claims.
The SACP is deeply shocked that the City Press found it so convenient not to take the necessary, deliberate and conscious effort to verify, validate and authenticate this information. On the contrary, it shoved these unverified and ludicrous claims into a leading story in its front page. The City Press has dismally failed to subject its claims to the objective test of validity and reliability and chose to promote absurd rumours of the ANCs existential danger in Gauteng.
The SACP is however not surprised that these false claims comes from the same newspaper that has consistently led a series of assaults and attacks against the leadership of our party and alliance partner the ANC. The City Press has also experienced an internal rupture from its own reporters, breaking the cycle of "pork barrel" political reporting and its consistent hatred and deliberate hounding of the ANC and its leadership.
These desperate and false claims by the City Press to profess the loss of the ANC in Gauteng province, are not different from the same day-dreams and hallucinations made by some who have prematurely pronounced the imminent collapse and death of the ANC, the revolutionary movement of the people.
Following this shocking claim by the City Press, we are definitely vindicated about our observation of a "low intensity" counter-revolution in our country that seeks to weaken the capacity of the ANC and its government to lead and move our country forward.
The SACP is looking forward to the edition and reporting of the City Press on the announcement of the elections results after the 07th May 2014. We will be particularly interested in extending sympathy to this bourgeois ideologue of the DA, as we watch them battling the refrain from editorial indignation over their dishonest pre-election reporting.
The SACP appreciates, respect and will continue to defend the freedom of the press, free and independent reporting given the fact that Karl Marx himself and many communist revolutionaries were and continues to work as news reporters.
Issued on behalf of the SACP Gauteng Province
Contact:
Mamabolo Jacob: Provincial Secretary: 082 884 1868
Lucian Segami: Provincial Spokesperson: 079 522 0098
