SACP Gauteng welcomes meetings between MEC and community leaders

21 June 2014

SACP Gauteng welcomed meetings that took place today between MEC of Human Settlement and COGTA, comrade Jacob Mamabolo, (who is also SACP Provincial Secretary) and various community leaders. Meetings followed a request by the SACP for the MEC to meet these community leaders.

The MEC met with community representatives of Lenasia, Newtown, Tembisa, Tswelopele Ext 8 and Phumula. SACP is pleased that the MEC afforded these community leaders the opportunity to engage the MEC on issues that affect them, and to find a long-lasting solutions to their problem.

The SACP believes that these meetings are consistent with the ANC-led Alliance principle to hear communities, and to ensure that ANC government continues to be the only source of hope for our people.

The SACP calls on working-class communities to welcome, support and embrace the opportunity to hear and engage them on issues affecting them, and to ensure that this opportunity is fully maximised before engaging in mass protest.

We also call on working-class communities to refrain from engaging in violent protests and rather utilise the commitment by the provincial government to hear and engage them.

The SACP believes that the renewed commitment to engage and hear communities constitutes a decisive turning point to fight the backward, lumpen and apartheid culture of violence, destruction of public property, attacks on houses and families of public representatives.

Issued on behalf of the SACP Gauteng Province

Contact:

Mpapa Kanyane: 1st Deputy Provincial Secretary 076 817 0152
Lucian Segami: Provincial Spokesperson: 079 522 0098