11 Februaray 1999
The SACP is surprised that the radio stations of the public broadcaster have seen fit to carry a head-line news story based on "an anonymous document" alleging an SACP Western Cape plot to undermine the ANC. We are especially surprised that the SABC has gone ahead with the report without the courtesy of seeking some response from the SACP.
The anonymous document carries extremely grave disinformation designed to sow division in the ranks of the ANC-led alliance. The reports come, ironically, days after the Central Committee of the SACP has met and resolved on an extensive election programme to ensure an overwhelming election victory for the ANC.
The reports are also broadcast on the very eve of the three-day extended National Executive Committee meeting of the ANC to finalise the ANC electoral lists. We suspect that the timing is not accidental.
According to the SABC reports the anonymous document makes all kinds of racial allegations, which are typical of anti-communist disinformation tactics of the apartheid dirty tricks departments of the past. The authors can only be enemies of the transformation process, those who fear the unity of our alliance.
Issued by the SACP Department of Information & Publicity
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