Thursday, 03 November, 2005
The South African Communist Party in all it?s entirety will be descending to the Northern Cape Province in celebrating and at the same time concluding the 2005 Red October Campaign in Jan Kempdorp which is about 100Km from the Northern Cape Provincial Capital, Kimberley. There will be similar events in other provinces, information will be sent as soon as it is available
DATE: 6TH NOVEMBER 2005 - (SATURDAY)
TIME: 10HOO
VENUE: AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH STATION
The event will kick-start with a Night Vigil on the 5th November where a cultural event including political education and ideological development will be held as part of the build-up towards the main event which is the symbolic occupation of unutilized and underutilized land. The key event will take place on the 06th November at the Agricultural Research Station which will be addressed by the General Secretary of the SACP cde Blade Nzimande, including members of our alliance partners the ANC and COSATU. We are taking the National Day of Action to this area as part of extending our key demands of the campaign;
1. Access to land for production and food security
2. Basic provision of proteins, vitamins, etc, especially for the poor
3. Highlighting the problem high food prices
4. Expansion of the school feeding scheme and the social security net
In the local areas, our Party branches & districts are already working on the ground with churches, land rights organizations, women?s groups and small farmers on local land and agrarian demands for the building of People?s Land Committees.
To this end, we are expecting from the length and breadth of the Country all the popular forces heeding our call to join the Party in numbers to demand and end to Hunger and call for Food Security for the People of South Africa, the Continent and the World.
Contact:
Kaizer Mohau
Media Liaison Officer
South African Communist Party (SACP)
Tel: 011 339 3621/2
Fax: 011 339 4244/6880
Mobile: 076 573 7764
Email: kaizer@sacp.org.za
Website: www.sacp.org.za
OR
Solly Mapaila
National Organizer
0828863526
OR
Seshupo Segole
Provincial Spokesperson- Northern Cape
0829402966