2005-11-25,+SACP+Dadoo+District+welcomes+Merafong+hearings

24 November 2005

Press Statement


 * SACP – Dr YUSUF DADOO DISTRICT WELCOMES PUBLIC HEARINGS IN MERAFONG**

We welcome the fact that ultimately government is prepared to go down and listen to what the people of Merafong feel about the proposed Bill, which seeks to change provincial boundaries. This is the move that we have been calling for since we started our campaign against the incorporation of Merafong into North West.

The public hearings take place tomorrow, Friday, 25 November 2005 at 08h30 at Carletonville Civic Centre. The Local Government Portfolio Committee of Gauteng Legislature will go down to listen to the people. The SACP District will also make oral and written submissions at the hearings.

We therefore hope the process will be fair, transparent and honest enough to listen to the genuine views and concerns of the people of Merafong. This is an opportunity that we have been yearning and calling for.

However, we also want to caution that we will be very vigilant about the fairness of the process. No organisations or groups are going to be manufactured to defeat the overwhelming will of the people. We know that to some people, particularly those few unprincipled and greedy ones, the reversal of the proposal would mean end to their hopes of becoming councillors and mayors at the expense of the people of Merafong. This would mean that they must come back and humble themselves to the people instead of going around and confusing branches.

Of course it is painful to those few charlatans because to them democracy means only their stomachs and their families. The people of Merafong are not expecting any other result other than withdrawing the current proposal to incorporate Merafong into North West. Should the people’s views and wishes be undermined again, the Party is prepare to resist until fairness and honesty prevails.

CONTACTS Nkosiphendule Kolisile District Secretary Dr Yusuf Dadoo (West Rand) District South African Communist Party

082 939 4035