SACP to hold Provincial Congresses in Kwazulu Natal & Limpopo this Weekend
20 August 2004
Blade Nzimande, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), will deliver the keynote address to the Provincial Congress of the SACP being held tomorrow in Pinetown.
Nzimande will address the Congress at 10h00 on Saturday, 21 August 2004. The Congress, to be attended by 300 delegates from 90 branches, will be held att the Edgewood campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (Margaret Martin Hall, Edgewood campus, Westmead, Pinetown).
The address will cover the following issues:
- Building & consolidating the SACP as an independent socialist & working class force with strategic influence in South African society
- Taking forward the struggle to transform the financial sector in the context of the narrow Financial Sector Charter
- How the SACP will engage the Agri-BEE Charter and the to ensure that the voices, aspirations & interests of landless people are primary in the Charter and in the overall land reform programme
- The role of the SACP in building the Young Communist League as the primary agent for mass mobilisation of young people against capitalism & for their interests as the youth
Meanwhile, the Limpopo Provincial Congress will be opened by George Mashamba, Member of the SACP Central Committee. Mashamba's address will also cover the same issues listed above.
The Limpopo congress will be held at the Main Hall, Mokopane College, Potgietersrus, Limpopo. It will be attended by 266 delegates from 90 SACP branches in the province. The Congress will be concluded with a mass rally to be held on Sunday, 22 August (from 12h00) at the Mokopane College stadium.
Other speakers at both Congresses will be from provincial structures of the ANC, COSATU and the Young Communist League. The agenda items for both congresses include:
- Political Report by the Provincial Secretary
- SACP Provincial Programme of Action for the next three years - with a focus on the building of co-operatives, the acceleration of land reform, the financial sector campaign & preparing for the 2006 local government elections
- Election of Provincial Executive Committee
CONTACT
- Themba Mthembu - SACP KwaZulu Natal Provincial Secretary - Cell: 083 303 6987
- Justice Piitso - Limpop Provincial Secretary - Cell: 083 303 6988
- Solly Mapaila - SACP National Organiser - Cell: 082 886 3526
- Nkosiphendule Kolisile - SACP National Organising Department - 082 939 4035