30 November 2016
The meeting will now take place on 14-16 December 2016 in Johannesburg.
The South African Communist Party has postponed its Augmented Central Committee meeting that was scheduled to take place on 2-4 December 2016. This important annual meeting of the Central Committee, which is extended to additional delegates from Provincial Executive Committees and representatives of District Executive Committees of the Party from across the country, as well as to additional delegates from the Young Communist League of South Africa, will now take place on 14-16 December 2016. Details of the press conference to communicate key outcomes of the meeting in relation to the class struggle unfolding in our country and internationally will be communicated in due course.
The reason for the postponement is to mourn the death of the Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Revolution, former President of Cuba and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Comrade Fidel Castro, and to allow a delegation of the SACP, led by General Secretary Comrade Blade Nzimande, to go to Cuba to attend memorial and burial services.
The SACP has strong fraternal relations with the Communist Party of Cuba, as is our struggle for national liberation and social emancipation and the Cuban revolution. Our struggle for socialism in South Africa and the socialist revolution in Cuba are an integral part of a single whole - the struggle by world revolutionary forces for universal emancipation.
Our own transition to the current democratic dispensation in April 1994 came as a result, among other invaluable contributions, of the defeat of apartheid South Africa in Angola by Cuba under the sterling leadership of Comrade Fidel.
The defeat forced the apartheid regime to come to the tables in the face of its days having been clearly numbered by the outstanding leadership of Comrade Fidel.
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