6 June 2014 - Cape Town
The South African Communist Party in the Brian Bunting (Cape Metro) held its District Council in Town two, Khayelitsha. The District Council was attended by delegates from all our branches across the District.
As it was the first Council after the general elections one of its objectives was to assess the work of the SACP Red Brigades during the elections campaign and ANC-led performance during the fifth General Election. Further than that the council was to assess the impact of the elections in the growth of the SACP membership.
The Council convened under the programmatic theme: Marching towards our 4th District Congress and building on the elections momentum and moving towards the rebuilding of a Quantitative and Qualitative Party and the united Alliance.
Membership and Branches
In the build-up to the general elections, the Party identified interrelated objectives, namely the ANC`s overwhelming majority, an increase in SAC P membership, and building of our branches. Today, we can proudly say these objectives have been achieved.
The SACP in the district will continue and intensify the work of building and expanding Party organisation in all areas. This will be buttressed by political work to demolish the geography of apartheid spatial planning and advance integration through the work of building Party organisation in all areas.
SACP Brian Bunting Red Brigades
The launch of Chris Hani Red Brigades in February this year, gave the Party an army of committed volunteers who were able to campaign in the areas which were also seen as hostile to the ANC. Thus the council resolved that the work of our Red Brigades must not be demobilised but must continue post-elections in the form of Know Your Neighbourhood Campaign including returning back to all areas we campaigned in during the elections.
Our Red Brigades uncovered many wrong tendencies and including the wrong behaviour of some ANC public representatives. The main content of our Red Brigades report shall be submitted to higher organs of the Party and the ANC leadership with our recommendations for consideration and auctioning.
Rebuild our youth-wing, the YCLSA
The council emphasised the need to have a strong and campaigning YCLSA in the District. The Party in the District shall take full responsibility of assisting young communists in to re-establish our YCLSA as per the resolutions of our 2002 National Congress.
This task is urgent because we have observed that many struggles waged in the recent past whether it is the workers or community struggles, there is dominance of young people. The presence of the YCLSA will help to provide scientific leadership to young people so that they cannot be captured by anarchists and demagogues who are bent on exploiting the conditions that they find themselves in.
Issued by SACP Brian Bunting District
Contact:
Benson Ngqentsu - SACP Brian Bunting District Secretary
Mobile: 082 796 6400
Tel: 021 948 6363
Fax: 086 660 0992