SACP Mpumalanga PEC Statement: "Stop Gender Based Violence: Red Card Against Women and Children Abuse"

24 October 2017

The SACP in Mpumalanga province convened its provincial executive committee meeting on the 22 October 2017 at eMalahleni. The meeting dealt with political developments domestically and globally.

The meeting took place whilst movement is celebrating the centenary of the Great October Socialist Revolution and OR Tambo. The meeting convenes in this trying times in our country and our revolution.

On the removal of our General Secretary, comrade Blade Nzimande from Cabinet:

The PEC is angered yet not surprised with another Saxonworld-inspired cabinet reshuffle. The removal of comrade Blade Nzimande has nothing to do with performance and capabilities of ministers. We believe his removal is linked to the stance the Party took of being critical to the leadership style of President Zuma and of calling for him to step down. President Zuma has turned our country and our movement ( ANC) into his Nkandla homestead and we believe that his recent action corroborate our resolution on state power, believing that the SACP as a 96 years old Party also has capacity to mobilise society to vote for it; we are tired of being abused by self-styled desperate, arrogant, corrupt individuals who think that this revolution belongs to their families.

The PEC is not impressed with the appointment of mediocre ministers who have neither national stature nor capacity to strengthen government but appointed to serve factional and corrupt agendas. It is our long-held view that the countries sovereignty and security is under threat from such and incapacitated appointments.

We believe these are actions of a desperate man who is running away from his sins and now he hits everyone critical to his leadership style.

Defend and advance the National Democratic Revolution:

Never before has our National Democratic Revolution been under severe strain and on trial, what is painful is that it is hijacked by a bunch of immigrant criminal-mafia family with its internal parasitic network led by President Zuma, who ordinarily was supposed to have been marshalling progressive forces in the country to advance NDR.

We have abdicated the strategic objective of liberating blacks in general and Africans in particular, creating a non-racial, non-sexist, united, democratic and prosperous South Africa; and the priority now is to enrich a few individual-elites, at the core of which is the Gupta parasitic network and President Zuma's family.

It is against this background that the Party has more responsibility to defend and advance the NDR. We have no option but to be part of a broader front to save our revolution in order to save our country from degenerating into a kleptocratic state. Inspired by comrade Joe Slovo, the time is now to form tactical alliances with all forces ready to defend our sovereignty.

State of government entities:

The PEC welcomes the sacking of Dudu Myeni at the South African Airways however we remain worried by the systematic collapse of our state owned entities. Most of these entities are headed by acting personnel and there is no political will to address all these challenges. Eskom has been turned into a Gupta milking cow and playground.

State of the revolutionary alliance:

We are deeply concerned with the state of alliance at the national level. It is very unfortunate that the alliance is on a brink of collapse due to a President who has established a new alliance with his network to undermine the historical role this revolutionary alliance has played. We believe that he will be harshly judged by history as a man who collapsed a revolutionary alliance succeeding to do what other great regimes failed to do over decades.

Alliance relations in the province have improved to a workable relations however we are still concerned about the inability of the ANC province in mandating its regional structures who are behaving according to pre-provincial alliance summit tendencies.

The unity of this alliance will be determined by respecting each component and convening of regional summits, collective deployment and redeployment, and developing a common programme of action to address issues affecting the workers and poor in the province. Unity must be understood both in terms of form and content, the content of which shall be practical implementation of the resolutions of the alliance summit of fighting and defeating all forms of corruption, dealing away with all vigilante forms of vigilante groups masquerading as developmental parallel government institutions.

Red October Provincial Launch:

The Party will convene its Red October rally under the theme "Stop Gender Based Violence: Red Card Against Women and Children Abuse" on Sunday, 29 October 2017 at Gert Sibande District.

International Solidarity:

We congratulate the Chinese Communist Party for a successful 19th National Congress. We remain inspired by the work of the Party in China and it is clear that they are on cause towards socialism and eventually communism.

We congratulate Venezuela for hosting successful elections. Against all odds, the Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) pulled a frustrating victory against the western imperialists who were on the offensive against President Nicholas Maduro.

We are deeply concerned by the US-led imperialism offensive against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Despite all their efforts, the Workers' Party of Korea and DPRK under the capable leadership of Kim Jong Un, continues to make advances to build their economy and nuclear capabilities towards socialism through the Juche orientated philosophy.

Issued by SACP Mpumalanga

Contact:

Bonakele Majuba - Provincial Secretary
Mobile: 082 968 4877

Lesetja Dikgale - Provincial Spokesperson
Mobile: 076 869 4360

Nomusa Keninda - Media Liaison
Mobile: 072 741 4050
Twitter: @SacpMp
nomusakeninda@gmail.com