SACP Mobilise Zeerust Rural Villages and Chiefs Behind the Campaign to Make Banks Serve the People

23 October 2001

As part of the Red October Campaign to Make Banks Serve the People, the South African Communist Party (SACP) will hold two Provincial People's and Worker's Forums in the Nyetse Village and Dinukana Royal Palace in Zeerust (North West Province) as detailed below.

DATE : Saturday, 27 October 2001
TIME : 10h00 for Nyetse Village,Zeerust

• 12h00 for Dinukana Royal Palace,Zeerust

The Forum at the Dinukana Royal Palace will also pay tribute to the late Chief Moilwa of the Bafurutshe who led his people in the 1958 Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws. Both Forums have been officially endorsed by the current Chief Moilwa, the son of the late Chief Moilwa.

The SACP General Secretary, Blade Nzimande will address these Forums (public meetings) reporting to the people of Zeerust about how far the campaign to make banks serve the people is. Through these Forums the SACP will also listen to the people in order to collect and consolidate demands from the people on how to fundamentally transform the entire financial sector in our country. This is in advance of the NEDLAC Summit on the financial sector now scheduled to be held in January 2002.

• Part of this SACP campaign is to build co-operatives and co-operative banks and to root the SACP amongst the poor rural masses. Therefore Blade Nzimande 's visit will include a tour of SACP led citrus fruit and meat production co-operatives in Zeerust, said Howard Yawa, the SACP Provincial Secretary in the North West Province.

CONTACT
Howard Yawa
SACP North West Provincial Secretary
Cell: 082 886 3527 or 018 462 9445
OR
Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara (surname Jara)
Department of Media, Information and Publicity
South African Communist Party
Tel - 011 339 3621
Fax - 011 339 4244
Cell - 082 886 3528
Email - sacp1@wn.apc.org