SACP MEDIA STATEMENT ON THE RECENT MEDIA REPORTS

The SACP has noted a media campaign carried in the recent past weeks, abetted by some within our movement, to attack and discredit the decisions of the SACP in relation to the deployment of its leaders and the General Secretary in particular. This campaign of slander and lies is mainly aimed at weakening our organisation and creating a picture of an organisation in complete chaos.  This is far from the true state of affairs of the SACP.

The SACP dismisses with contempt the concerted campaign to harm the integrity and standing of the Office of the General Secretary and the person of Cde Blade Nzimande.

The SACP wishes to state for the record that our General Secretary and most of our senior  leaders were elected to serve as ANC MP's and subsequently appointed to various positions of responsibility in the National Executive and Provincial Councils. The SACP released them as their appointments properly dovetailed with our own political programme, the Medium Term Vision, adopted in 2003, whose main thrust is to build and deepen working class power and hegemony in all key sites of power.

That decision of the SACP, endorsed by the special national congress of the SACP, stands and is final. The SACP will not allow itself to be sidetracked by detractors who seem to believe that its decisions can and will be changed by a media campaign.  Decisions of SACP branches will only be assessed and if necessary changed by SACP branches.

Those within the alliance who wish to engage with the SACP on the decisions of its structures and are genuine about the engagement process will do so within protocols as prescribed by the alliance framework. Our allies must engage with us in order to strengthen us, respecting our resolutions and not seek to make a mockery of our decision making processes. The SACP states that our openness to engagement must never be mistaken to mean we will not vigorously implement SACP decisions.

The SACP wish to warn the media not to allow itself to be used for narrow factional political battles.

Statement issued by the SACP, April 5 2011

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