3 April 2007
The South African Communist Party has noted with concerns attempts to form a so-called ANC voters`network. As part of the ANC voters, we fully support the stance taken by the ANC that its name and those who vote for it must not be abused for what are clearly dubious ends.
The SACP is of the view that this smacks of the same attempts in the 1970s to form what was known as a Marxist Workers` Tendency of the ANC, an attempt to create different and unofficial ANC structures within the ANC and outside of the formal structures of our movement. This tendency has long been defeated in our movement and we should not allow such and other tendencies to rear their heads again.
We also strongly condemn attempts to speak for us, as ANC voters, outside of the structures of the ANC and/or those of our Alliance.
All genuine members of the ANC need to raise whatever issues within those structures, and ANC voters have access to ANC structures to raise whatever concerns they might have.
As the SACP we know that the ANC is perfectly capable of addressing such matters, but as ANC voters we cannot allow attempts to hijack the ANC in our name.
Issued by the SACP.
For information Contact:
Malesela Maleka
SACP Spokesperson
082 226 1802