SACP+on+SADTU+members+accident+and+Jeppestown+killing+of+4+police



=SACP Statement on the tragic accident involving SADTU members and the killing of four policemen in Jeppestown=

The SACP has learnt with shock and sadness at the tragic passing away of 14 members of SADTU, who all taught at one school in the North-West Province. The SACP wishes to express its most sincere condolences to the families of the educators involved, and wish those who survived a speedy recovery.

This tragic accident once more highlights the unacceptably high rates of road accidents in our country, and the need for safer, affordable and efficient public transport. The Central Committee of the SACP is currently seized with these issues and we intend throwing our weight behind the mobilisation of our communities to call for the creation of safe public transport system.

The SACP is also shocked and outraged at the killing of four policemen in Jeppestown in a shootout between the police and a criminal gang. We wish to pass our condolences to the families of the police involved, and salute them as heroes of the struggle to create a better and a safer South Africa.

Again it is our considered view that our communities throughout the length and breadth of our country need to be mobilised to work together with government in fighting crime. We need to strengthen Community Policing Forums, and possibly even revert back to building street and area committees to fight crime, transform and strengthen the criminal justice system as a whole. Our people should be the eyes and the ears of law enforcement agencies in order root out and expose criminals. We also urge those of our people who might have more information about the Jeppestown criminal gang and its networks to come foward so that these criminals and their networks are dealt with swiftly.

We call upon our communities to mobilise to fight these twin scourges of road accidents and crime.


 * Issued by:**
 * Malesela Maleka**
 * SACP Spokesperson**
 * 082 226 1802**