Sunday 14 May 2017 18:54
Manelisi Dubase
The Western Cape SACP is the first structure of the alliance to adopt a resolution for Zuma to resign.(SABC)
The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Western Cape has resolved to endorse a call for President Jacob Zuma's resignation and to lobby other SACP regions to support their call for the party to contest the 2019 election on its own ticket.
Other resolutions include piling pressure on Eskom to rescind its decision to re-employ Brian Molefe through pickets outside Eskom's buildings and to put pressure on parliament to set-up an Ad hoc Committee to probe the activities of all parastatals and SASSA.
The Western Cape SACP is the first structure of the alliance to adopt a resolution for Zuma to resign and it also reiterated a call by other structures to revoke the citizenship of the Guptas.
At a media briefing after their two-day conference in Cape Town, the party passed a vote of no confidence in Zuma's leadership.
SACP Provincial Secretary in the Western Cape, Benson Nqentsu, says: "The conference re-affirmed the decision to call President Zuma to step down because of his reckless leadership style and also misusing the tool of our revolution, using it for patronage, abusing law enforcement agencies to advance factional interests."
The party says in its current form, the African National Congress (ANC) is incapable of leading the alliance and as a result, it's decided to lobby other provinces to fight the 2019 election on its own ticket.
SACP Provincial Chairperson Anton Deiderick says: "We are not just a party that will remain a party in an alliance but a party that will prepare itself for state power and as a province we have now taken the decision that we will lobby for the possibility of a party taking up an elected posture."
This decision is supported by the Young Communist League. At the same time while the party plans to force the Eskom Board to rescind its decision to re-employ Molefe, the newly re-appointed power utility CEO will be welcoming delegates at the African Utility Conference in Cape Town on Tuesday.
Molefe and the Board Chairperson Ben Ngubane will be keynote speakers at the conference and the event gathers more than 700 energy and water decision-makers from over 80 countries to source the latest solutions in energy and water resources.