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Gauteng YCL Media Statement, 30 March 2007
=YCL response to the SACP Gauteng PEC statement=

The Young Communist League in Gauteng would like to disassociate itself from the press statement of the South African Communist Party Provincial Executive Committee released on the 29th of March 2007. The YCL would further like to categorically point out that the statement released by the SACP PEC is in no way a reflection of the resolutions of the Provincial Congress of the SACP in Gauteng that happened on the 24th and 25th of March 2007 in Johannesburg. The YCL believes that the people who wrote the statement were writing on behalf of another Congress that happened in their own seclusions.

The Congress of the SACP in Gauteng, which the YCL was part of, NEVER spoke about the so-called “**//disturbing trend marked by a low levels and complete disregard of Party discipline and communist conduct//**”. It is shocking that the SACP PEC decries “**//instances where internal Party matters were raised in the media without any attempt to resolve them within the Party structures//**”, while they are doing the same thing. Worse is the fact that the SACP PEC is consciously ignorant of the correct information within the SACP, yet go out to blazing about issues they could have raised internally.

The YCL believes that the SACP PEC has stooped too low and showed some factionalist tendencies and childishness, which are not worth responding to. However, because the SACP PEC has misled the public about vital issues of the organisation, we are left with no choice but to clarify them:

1) No official structure of the SACP has ever condemned the Gauteng PEC because of inviting the African National Congress (ANC) President Thabo Mbeki to speak in a gathering of the SACP. The SACP rather raised a genuine concern about that standard organisational procedures were not followed by the SACP Gauteng PEC in conferring the highest award in the SACP. 2) The resolution on the dissolution of the SACP in Limpopo is categorically a YCL 2nd National Congress resolution, which was taken against the background that the Limpopo PEC defied and disobeyed the Augmented Central Committee resolution of the SACP—that a political school should not be convened unless certain conditions have been met. The YCL stands by that resolution, and would like to emphasise that is not because the President of the ANC addressed the school. 3) There has NEVER been a media attack on the former spokesperson of the SACP and ex-member of the YCL, Mazibuko Jara from any official organ of the SACP or YCL. Neither did any official position of the SACP or YCL attack the Deputy General Secretary of the SACP, Comrade Jeremy Cronin.

The YCL is concerned about members of the SACP Gauteng PEC who are trying to relegate the views and resolutions of the SACP in Gauteng into their personal views. The SACP should never be used by anyone to settle scores and entertain squabbles. The YCL will ensure that a correct statement that reflects the deliberations of Congress is released if individuals continue to smuggle their personal views into organisational positions.


 * For More Information Contact**
 * Floyd Shivambu - Gauteng YCL Organising Secretary**
 * 076 880 1904**

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