06 May 2003
The 14th edition of Umsebenzi Online will be available from the website of the South African Communist Party (SACP - www.sacp.org.za/umsebenzi/online/)tomorrow, Wednesday, 07 May.
Umsebenzi Online is an exclusively electronic publication of the SACP published on the first and third Wednesday of every month.
The contents of the 14th edition are as follows:
1. Red Alert: SACP Salutes Walter Sisulu by Blade Nzimande, SACP General
Secretary
2. In honour of the May Day heroes
3. Apartheid and Business: business cannot be let off the hook
Extract from the third article
"We need to remind ourselves that in the TRC’s special hearings on the Role of Business held in November 1997, the ANC, SACP and COSATU all made submissions. Together these advanced a compelling case that private capital was actively complicit both in the creation and in the sustaining of the system of oppression and exploitation that developed under colonialism and apartheid.
...At the same time, the TRC chided the business sector for fail[ing], in the hearings, to take responsibility for its involvement in state security initiatives…specifically designed to sustain apartheid rule.
Capital, in short, is definitely not off the hook. It has been indicted for, and found culpable of, collusion in gross human rights violations associated with apartheid oppression and exploitation. The only real debate, in our view, is how to respond."
CONTACT
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Department of Media, Information and Publicity
South African Communist Party
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Email - mazibuko@sacp.org.za