SACP Statement on the ANC Provincial Executive Committee in the Western Cape
20 February 2011
The South African Communist Party in the Western Cape province welcomes and supports the ANC leadership in the province that has been elected on the weekend of 12-13 February 2011, this leadership has been elected against the background of the work that has been undertaken by the ANC Provincial Task Team (PTT) that was appointed by the ANC National Executive Committee.
As the SACP in the province we have been calling upon the ANC National Executive Committee to intervene in relation to the problems that continued to beset the ANC, which were in the main characterized by factionalism, patronage, crass materialism, stomach politics and in particular the marginalization of the alliance. The ANC has been unable to unite all people of the province across their class and racial differences.
Since the appointment of the ANC Provincial Task Team (PTT) we have observed significant progress, amongst others, in building ANC branches and alliance structures being taken serious. The SACP is placing on record its condemnation and rejection of factional, slate and rent a crowd politics that continue to characterize ANC conferences and related gatherings, these are foreign tendencies hell-bent to reduce the ANC into employment and tendering agency. Let us once and for all defeat javelin throwers and compradors who parade themselves in order to advance their private accumulation interests. The SACP will continue to defend the ANC, which is multi-class in character and being disciplined force of the left against all these tendencies.
Whilst welcoming the new leadership of the ANC in the province, the party is encouraged with the fact that the ANC convened the first meeting between the Provincial Office Bearers of the SACP and of the ANC on Thursday, the 17 February 2011, which dealt with substantive political issues, amongst others, the forthcoming local government elections and about the strengthening of the alliance in the province, we view this as not gimmick but a clear illustration that there is a commitment from the new leadership to openly and comradely engage with alliance structures. We wish to emphasize that in the Western Cape province we need an ANC that is ready to lead the alliance, as it has the primary but not the exclusive responsibility to unite and lead the alliance. This it does because of wisdom it accumulated, it must therefore exercise this responsibility without seeking to belittle other alliance structures.
In our meeting with the new leadership, it was further reaffirmed that we will seek to strengthen the Alliance as the ANC led strategic political centre that will now act together as a revolutionary formation to advance the objectives of the national democratic revolution. The SACP will work in the province with the ANC that has mass appeal not limited only to those who stand to benefit from the successful national democratic revolution but to all those who love freedom and democracy and who yearn for a united, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist society, hence we were also encouraged with the ANCs endeavors to meet all progress formations in the province.
Khaya Magaxa (SACP Provincial Secretary) @ 083 721 0221
