YCLSA utterly nauseated by Naspers
Monday November 30, 2015
The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] supports the South African Communist Party [SACP] media Transformation Campaign fully. As the YCLSA we have noted that in reaction to the campaign the Naspers monopoly through its Media24 is out to tarnish the image of SACP General Secretary Comrade Blade Nzimande and other leaders of the Party including the current ANC MP and Chairperson of the Parliamentary Communications Portfolio Committee Comrade Joyce Moloi-Moropa who is SACP National Treasurer.
Naspers' Media24 titles Die Rapport and City Press and its digital news platform News24 are being used to push this anti-communist smear campaign which is also part of Naspers' 2017 media coverage strategy. The YCLSA rejects the contents especially the lies peddled by Die Rapport and also published by Media24 through the City Press and other propaganda platforms aimed at tarnishing the image of SACP leaders and that of the Party as a whole which boarders on defamation.
The YCLSA wishes to place it on record that communists are entitled to exercising their constitutional rights. The first and last law in this country that banned communists and denied them human rights including economic, political and public participation rights is the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 which was repealed in the 1990s after decades of struggle. Naspers was the ideological mouthpiece of apartheid which it served as a propaganda vanguard. As the YCLSA we will not allow Naspers to take our country back.
Our post-apartheid, democratic constitution has established state institutions such as the police and the courts to deal with violations of the law. As the YCLSA we will not allow Naspers propaganda machinery and its political collaborators including hidden operatives to undermine our democratic achievements.