SACP Mpumalanga PEC Media Statement
The Provincial Executive Committee of the Communist Party in Mpumalanga met in their first meeting of the year on 17 February 2013 to deliberate on key political and organisational issues that are central to the continuation of the political influence that the working class and the poor enjoy in our liberation alliance and government.
This meeting was also vital in that the PEC adopted the reviewed 2013 programme of action which included key campaigns like land reform, central to which is the protection of farm workers and tenure rights.
The PEC reaffirmed the importance of the continuing and deepening relations with our alliance partners in the Province and emphasised the need to strengthen our relationship with COSATU as part of advancing the interest of the working class in the Province.
We believe that regular meetings and joint programmes with COSATU in the Province is key to fostering a left agenda, which the PEC believes is primary to eradicating the capitalist inspired crisis of unemployment, poverty and inequality which is threatening the democratisation process underway in our country.
The PEC noted with concern and alarm the deliberate and well orchestrated ideological attacks by organised and individual businesses and the bourgeois media on the progressive forces and leaders of our revolutionary alliance.
Their objective is to try to erode the confidence that our people are having in the transformative programmes that are being implemented by the ANC led government, which seeks to change our apartheid inherited socio economic nightmare of generations of economic exclusion of the majority of our people and opposed to the conferring of wealth and privilege to a tiny white minority.
The PEC further observed the lack of accountability and patriotism by the majority of companies and businesses in the country that continue to operate in a similar way they did during apartheid, when out people were treated like objects to maximise profit with little benefit accruing to them.
This can be observed through the unwillingness by AGRI-SA to participate meaningfully in the land reform programme, which the party believes is central to the transformation of the colonial and apartheid landscape which its final nail was the 1913 Land Act that overnight turned African people into pariahs in the land of their birth.
The Party believes that the important issue of youth unemployment should not be done in isolation of the apartheid capitalist crisis, which has resulted in a national crisis of structural unemployment, inherited by the democratic government in 1994.
There is stubborn continued resistance at any attempt to transform the property and production relations, which is still mainly dominated by white monopoly capital, that has developed an arrogant and reactionary attitude towards the democratisation of our economy.
We call on all progressive forces to unite and continue to struggle for a pro- working class and pro-poor developmental agenda that will lead to a decisive victory for our ANC led alliance in the 2014 National and Provincial elections.
We further call on the ANC and the Government of Mpumalanga to continue to root out corrupt officials and create a Developmental Provincial Government that will put the development and the interest of the people of our Province in the centre of the 2013 State of the Provincial Address.
The PEC calls on all our members to prepare for our upcoming Provincial Congress on the 05-07 April 2013 and ensure that this assembly of our activists and cadres of the Communist Party is used to strengthen the capacity of the SACP in Mpumalanga to continue to be a dependable and reliable voice of the working class and the poor.
Statement issued by SACP Mpumalanga Provincial Secretary, Bonakele Majuba, February 18 2013
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