Wednesday, 20 April 2005
The South African Communist Party (SACP) calls on the national parliament and all provincial legislatures to convene public hearing on credit bureaux. We have received hundreds of complaints about how credit bureaux violate privacy rights and administrative justice procedures.
The conduct of privately owned and publicly unaccountable credit bureaux is a national crisis.
Amongst other things, these public hearings must address the following:
The conduct and functions of the credit bureaux Their relationship with the banks and creditors The constitutionality and legality of the practices and conduct of credit bureaux Building and protecting the voice and interests of consumers and recipients of credit The call for a general amnesty for the workers and the poor unfairly blacklisted credit bureaux
We call on the more than 2 million people in our country who are blacklisted to add to their voice this call for public hearings on credit bureaux.
We further call on the workers and the poor of our country to buttress this call by ongoing mass mobilisation and pressure directed at credit bureaux, banks and the insurance industry which continut to profit through exploitation of millions of our people.
Contact
Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara (surname Jara)
Head of the Office of the General Secretary
South African Communist Party
P.O. Box 1027,
Johannesburg, 2000
3rd floor COSATU House,
1-5 Leyds Street,
Braamfontein, 2017
Tel - 011 339 3621,
Fax - 011 339 4244/6880
Cell - 083 651 0271
Email - mazibuko@sacp.org.za (office), mazibuko@mail.ngo.za (alternate)
Website - www.sacp.org.za