South African Communist Party Northern Cape Province Provincial Executive Committee Statement
15 July 2010
The 6th plenary session of the 3rd Provincial Congress PEC meeting was convened on the 09th -10th July 2010, attended by PEC members including its districts representatives and the YCL. The PEC reflected on the Political and Organizational matters taking place in the province, including process of government and service delivery, key to the political issues raised was the character of the NDR which we believe entails three interconnected and non-contradictory elements, which are Class, Gender and Race. As the Party we believe that the national struggle is dominant but the class struggle is fundamental, the South African Road to Socialism programme adopted at the Twelfth Congress of the SACP declares this as a struggle to place social needs above private profits.
The Party noted that the PEC is convened during the weekend of the FIFA world cup finals, and took the opportunity to congratulate Bafana Bafanas performance and further hails the Black Stars of Africa, Ghana for being the only African team to reach the quarter-finals, they deed us indeed proud.
The PEC further reaffirmed the 12th National Congress resolution on the Nationalisation of SASOL and Mittal Steel, but we should ensure that the SACP in the province participates vigorously in the current debate on Nationalisation. And ours is for the complete change of the economic ownership patterns and to fully transform the economy of our province and the country. We affirm nationalisation as enshrined in the Freedom Charter: `the people shall share in the wealth of our Country, the heritage of South Africans shall be restored to the people, the mineral wealth beneath the soil, banks and monopoly industry and trade shall be controlled to assist the well being of the people.
Ours should not only be about the mines but is the general transformation of the colonial structural economic conditions and the means of production in the whole country.
We further resolved to engage our alliance partners to convene a joint alliance PEC meeting and each component of the alliance to present their position and understanding on the Nationalisation especially in relation to the mines but also in the commanding heights of the economy including the banks and monopoly industry.
The over-arching framework on Nationalisation must be about a new growth path that seeks to empower ordinary people to participate in the entire economy that can address our key challenges which is unemployment and poverty.
On advancing the developmental capacity of the State reversing privatization and outsourcing, we are calling on all our government leadership to implement the resolutions taken at our 2009 Provincial Alliance Summit on outsourcing as we see some of the government departments continuing with outsourcing, which is defeating the notion of creating Decent and Quality Jobs for all as enshrined in our 2009 Manifesto. The Party through our PEC we will often invite the different departments to make presentation on how far are we on implementing the five key priorities of the ANC manifesto of 2009 on which we rallied our people to vote the ANC led Alliance.
The PEC also received a detailed presentation from the Department of Agriculture on Rural Development Strategy; we commend the good work done by the department
but also emphasised that there is a need to accelerate and massifying the work on rural development. The PEC requested the department to draw up a holistic development of a costed social plan that can buttress and accelerate the implementation of the rural development strategy.
The PEC further resolved that:
- The building of strong SACP structures is central and important to ensure that all programmes of the Party are implemented to the latter, e.g. 2010 is declared the year of the Branch.
- The PEC will further engage government on the issue of the Leratong Park and other disadvantaged and depressed communities to ensure that they become the beneficiaries of a pilot project for human settlement.
- Ideological work and more political discussions must prioritize in all our Party structures around current debates, for example: Nationalisation and other important current debates.
- The SACP must keep on working for the Unity of the Alliance in the province, but must agitate for an Alliance at work, must take up campaigns and programmes at our own branches and communities in seeking to provide leadership to our broad society.
- The SACP will ensure that the ANC led Alliance in the province retains all its 32 municipalities in the forth coming Local Government Elections in 2011. The gains achieved in 2006 must be safeguarded and defended by all progressive forces in the province.
- The SACP calls for the Unity of the ANC and all Alliance partners, therefore request all Party comrades to be central in closing ranks and providing leadership for our people.
- The PEC also resolved to vigorously take up and sustain the Anti-Corruption Campaign in ensuring that no government department should leave any alleged corruption case unattended, and all culprits must be brought to book. Clean governance must become the order of the day.
Issued by: SACP N-Cape Provincial Executive Committee
For more information contact:
Tshepo `Footsoldier` Mogorosi @ 073 094 6027
Provincial Spokesperson
