"Motion of no confidence", an attempt to hold our country back, and disrupt radical transformation
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
The SACP has noted that Parliament will today be discussing the so-called motion of no confidence brought against the Speaker of Parliament, Comrade Baleka Mbete. The motion was brought about by an essentially right-wing alliance, comprising of a party of white apartheid privilege, the DA; a proto-fascist party masquerading as the "left", led by loud-mouthed demagogues and most corrupt tenderpreneurs, the EFF; and three other opposition parties representing narrow interests. This action, by what we consider to be an unprincipled regime change coalition, is indeed a laughable stunt. Such tactics, which have previously failed, are doomed to further failure. It is not a mature act to do one thing over and over but expect a different result.
The motion should not be viewed in isolation from the manoeuvres that lie behind the manifestation of the acts of hooliganism in our Parliament. The SACP reiterates its call for decisive action to be taken against the shenanigans displayed through the party led by most corrupt tenderpreneurs that violently disrupted Parliamentary proceedings. They have wilfully undermined the rules of the legislative body which exercises executive oversight in our democracy. This hooliganism is being described as "vibrancy" by the right-wing and "left-wing" opportunism alike, by the historically pro-apartheid media that magnifies and glorifies it in its coverage, and by the racist conservative elements who masquerade as "liberals".
The "motion of no confidence" against the Speaker is also a dirty trick to distract attention from real issues facing an overwhelming majority of our people, the working class and poor. The critical necessity in South Africa at present is radical economic and social transformation, and the deepening of democratisation. This is bitterly opposed, by reactionaries, inside and outside South Africa. This is why the DA, COPE, UDM and FF Plus are using the proto-fascist party as their willing tool to destabilise the National Democratic Revolution. The disruption of Parliament is being supported in order to prevent proper, and mature discussion of national problems and solutions from taking place. It is an attempt to hold us back.
The SACP says to the people as a whole, their majority in particular, the working class and poor, to refuse to go back. Let us together move South Africa forward by defeating all the acts of counter-revolution. The SACP calls on the ANC to use its democratically elected majority to focus and move decisively on addressing and resolving real issues affecting our people, and on legislation to combat the counter-revolutionary offensives that are being manifested in Parliament.
The SACP wishes to express its full confidence in Comrade Baleka Mbete, as the Speaker of our National Assembly elected in terms of our country's Supreme Law, the Constitution!
Statement issued by Alex Mashilo, SACP spokesperson, September 16 2014
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