12 March 2021
The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Moses Mabhida Province (KwaZulu-Natal) has learnt with shock of the passing of King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu in the early hours of this morning. As the SACP we send our condolences to the family including Ondlunkulu, Amazinyane eSilo and the Zulu people at large for the loss encountered.
King Zwelithini, just like his predecessors, played a role in keeping the Zulu people together and was a champion for peace and preservation of the Zulu culture. The Zulu Kingdom, just like other kingdoms in Southern Africa that fought gallant wars against colonisation, played a critical role in the fights against the colonisers and dispossession of Africans.
While the SACP was the first organisation in South Africa to call for, and to pioneer the imperative for the transformation of South Africa into a republic with equal rights for all regardless of race and gender, we fully recognise and salute the historic role played by the Zulu Kingdom together with other Kingdoms like the Pedi, Xhosa, Venda, Sotho and Tswana, Ndebele, Tsonga and Shangani kingdoms against colonialism. King Cetshwayo, King Hintsa, King Sekhukhune, to name but a few, played a major role in fighting against colonisation and defending Africans against expropriation and subordination by the colonisers.
King Zwelithini will be remembered for encouraging rural communities to be self-reliant and productively use land by among others engaging in agriculture and farming.
In memory of the wars fought by the kingdoms of our people against colonisation and, within this context, in memory of King Zwelithini, the SACP wishes to underline the importance of building non-racial and non-sexist unity to advance, deepen and defend the second radical phase of the national democratic revolution towards the goals of the Freedom Charter, the achievement of which the SACP believes will lay an indispensable basis towards complete liberation of the formerly oppressed and social emancipation under a further advance, a socialist transition. The working class has a great class leadership role to play in this course of struggle and broader social transformation, and its unity as a class cannot be overemphasised.
Therefore, the SACP will strengthen its efforts to build the widest possible patriotic front and a popular Left front.
The SACP says:
LALA NGOXOLO BHEJANE PHUMA ESIQIWINI.
ISSUED BY THE SACP MOSES MABHIDA (KZN) PROVINCE
For more information, contact:
Sifiso Gwala
Provincial Spokesperson
064 907 0498
sifisogwala@gmail.com
Nomcebo Msomi
Media Liaison Officer
076 969 5897
msomi.nomcebo@gmail.com
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