19 August 2002
The South African Communist Party (SACP) has noted the statement of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC) in regard to our Deputy General Secretary, Comrade Jeremy Cronin. The SACP supports Comrade Cronin in his principled stand, and in his preparedness to apologise to the ANC NEC.
The SACP upholds the right of our respective formations (the ANC as much as the SACP) to submit members to organisational discipline, regardless of their positions in any other allied formation.
The public debate around this matter, which began in the last two weeks before the SACP's 11th Congress, has raised many other questions of principle, of substance, and of intra-alliance practice. These matters will be taken up by the SACP at our forthcoming Central Committee meeting (23-25 August), and in the appropriate bilateral and the tripartite forums.
CONTACT
Mazibuko K. Jara (surname Jara)
Department of Media, Information and Publicity
South African Communist Party
Tel - 011 339-3621/2
Fax - 011 339-4244
Cell - 083 651 0271
Email - mazibuko@sacp.org.za