15 December 2018
The South African Communist Party unequivocally condemns intimidation, trolling or online harassment of journalists, including on but not limited to their social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, and any form of incitement and threat of physical or non-physical harm against them. This unacceptable and anti-intellectual conduct resurfaced recently outside the commission of inquiry investigating the corruption of state capture, and has since been relentlessly pursued in various forms.
It is part and parcel of the demagogic mobilisation unleashed among others against Pravin Gordhan, the Minister of Public Enterprises who was testifying against the corruption of state capture at the commission. The corruption left key public entities bankrupt or insolvent, and drove our state to the brink of financial collapse. Gordhan is leading the national executive effort to uproot the corruption in state owned enterprises.
The SACP, the Party of Ruth First, journalist, academic and political activist reaffirms its unwavering support for a free press. First was murdered by a letter bomb in what could only have been the work of the anti-free press apartheid regime through its security agencies.
The SACP urges South Africans to unite against the regressive tendency, close ranks and defend, advance and deepen transformation to achieve our national vision of a non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous society. The Party stands for non-exploitative individual and collective prosperity, and will intensify the programme until our national vision is fully achieved and irreversibly secured.
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