SACP Mpumalanga media statement
1 February 2010
The Mpumalanga PEC of the SACP held its PEC on the 31st January 2010 at Emalahleni. We took stock of our successful implementation of the programme, especially the Commemorations of Joe Slovo. These Commemorations took place in all districts throughout the province.
We welcome comrade Ngoakos initiative with his discussion document on ANC as a strategic political centre. However, we reaffirmed our belief of an alliance being a strategic political centre. We believe that the National Democratic Revolutions strategic objective is not only about liberating blacks in general and Africans in particular.
It is also about establishing a democratic non-racial, non sexist, united South Africa, dealing with the three interconnected contradictions, of race, class and gender whilst accepting the race contradiction as a dominant one, we appreciate class to be fundamental. We believe that comrade Ngoakos intervention misses the point by concentrating selectively on one sentence, from the strategic objective, quoting it out of context and distorting the whole NDR.
We wish to appeal to him, to revisit the strategy and tactics document of the ANC, so as his argument be based on ANCs collective position, not his opinion, as he is a senior leader of the ANC.
We re-stated our commitment to defending the SACP and the working class and the poor, from corruption which threatens to loot public resources, efforts of the new tendency, trying to redefine the National Democratic Revolution to suit their stomachs. We are convinced that the ANC remains a revolutionary liberation movement of the people of South Africa. As communists, we are members of this giant organization.
We were banished to exile together, we were imprisoned together, we struggled together, we campaigned together, won elections together and were governing together, co-governing together, with the people of South Africa. Together we can do more.
SACP Provincial Secretary SACP Provincial Spokesperson
Bonakele Majuba Lesetja Dikgale
082 968 4877 076 869 4360
