DA and its likes blur demarcation lines opportunistically

SACP Moses Kotanne Province, 13 September 2015

The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the province of Moses Kotane, North West noted with concern the extreme to which opposition parties are prepared to sow and participate in anarchy as the mode of their activity and in order to try and discredit our ally, the African National Congress (ANC) . This is aimed at scoring political points, which however can only be cheap. Such a politics is not sustainable. It will collapse as the voice of reason, along with the truth, prevails over propagandas of misinformation and misinterpretation of facts.

The court challenges to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) over disputes on bi-elections are construed as if the ‎IEC is the ANC. The two are completely not the same. The ANC is the African National Congress and the IEC is the Independent Elecctoral Commission as established in terms of chapter 9 of our constitution and functions independently of the ANC. 

The recommendations of the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) are construed, similarly, as if the MDB is the ANC. The MDB is the Municipal Demarcation Board and the ANC is the African National Congress. The two are not one and the same. ‎The MDB funcctions, as required, independently of the ANC.

The Ventersdorp and Tlokwe communities should be aware that this demarcation process could easily be used by individuals who have political ambitions or political parties for political reasons. We also want to call on comrades within the liberation movement not to use innocent community members as cannon fodder to pursue selfish and factional individual interests. During this process, the ANC should humble itself and work with both Ventersdorp and Tlokwe communities to preserve unity and cohesion of these communities. 

It cannot be that, in order to be seen as independent, state institutions established in terms of chapter 9 of our constitution must submit their independence to toeing the line of the opposition with any conclusion to the contrary portrayed as a move by the ANC.‎ Those, like the so-called Democratic Alliance (DA), who think that the political rights enshrined‎ in our constitution are reserved exclusively to themselves and that the ANC must not express its views are only fooling themselves and misleading the public. 

Like all persons protected under our constitution, the ANC reserves the right to think, to express its views, and most importantly to stand up in the political struggle for and in pursuit of those views in a democratic manner. Exclusive "rights" are an apartheid previlage that many who form the electoral backbone of the DA enjoyed alone on a racist basis when the majority of our people were oppressed.‎ 

Statement issued by Madoda Sambatha, SACP North West Provincial Secretary, September 13 2015