The conference will also elect leaders and decide on whether it must contest elections.
FILE: SACP leadership at the party`s Chris Hani commemoration rally at the Boksburg Civic Centre on 30 April 2017. Picture: Pelane Phakgadi/EWN
Clement Manyathela | 4 days ago
JOHANNESBURG - As hundreds of South African Communist Party(SACP) leaders converge in Boksburg on Monday for the party`s national congress, the party says that the challenges facing the working class and the economy will dominate discussions.
The conference will also elect leaders and decide on whether it must contest elections.
SACP spokesperson Alex Mashilo says that the conference will also discuss challenges affecting the country.
"The conditions of the working class is at the heart of this conference as well as inequality, unemployment, poverty, criminality in society, communities ravished by substance abuse and economic policies."
Last month, the party released a statement, sharing its concerns about the economy after the country slipped into a technical recession.
"While it is the rich and wealthy, the capitalist bosses who command ownership of means of production, appropriate and accumulate wealth from economic production and exchange converted into money and capital, a recession has an adverse impact on the workers and the poor who become worst affected by capitalist crises in general."
The SACP believes South Africa has a better future but requires "maximum unity behind a common programme of national democratic revolutionary transformation".
http://ewn.co.za/2017/07/10/conditions-of-working-class-economy-tops-sacp-congress-agenda
