SACP+Northern+Cape+22nd+January+PEC+Statement

**SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY NORTHERN CAPE**

 * Office of the Provincial Secretary**

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 * Sanlam Building. 1st Floor. Jones Street. Kimberley. 8301 Telephone 053 832 5302. Facsimile: 053 832 5855**

=**SACP Provincial Executive Committee Statement - //Communist Cadres To The Front!…For people centered Local Development//**=

The SACP in the Province convened a Provincial Executive Committee on Sunday 22nd January 2006 in Pabalelo, Upington. This PEC was the first meeting in 2006 as we prepare for the forthcoming local government elections and commemorate 11 years of the death of the former National Chairperson of the SACP cde Joe Slovo.

The most immediate challenge in 2006 is that of the holding of free and fair local government elections. On our part as the SACP we are calling on the overwhelming majority of our people to come out and vote for the African National Congress. We say this because we believe the ANC is the only political party that has demonstrated its resolve and willingness to create a better life for all.

The Party’s Local Government Elections Campaign Focus
The Party’s Local Government Elections Campaign Plan focuses our campaigns on communities that are economically and socially distressed. Our point of departure is the intensification of our existing campaigns and seek to widen their impact and mobilisational capacity. Our programme has identified the following key activities as a guide to our elections strategy for an overwhelming ANC Electoral Victory. The programmes //inter alia// includes, the following:


 * **Red Saturdays’ Programme**
 * **Red Wednesday’s Programme**
 * **Red Week Programme**

The SACP is of the view that the energies that will be unleashed through the local government election campaign will be sustained to ensure that our people remain mobilised to ensure service delivery even after the elections. The SACP will not be found wanting in taking part in this all-important effort.

//**Building working class power in all of society**//
The Party has adopted a Programme of Action for 2006 under the slogan “Communist Cadres to the Front, For People Centred Local Economic Development”. We adopted this slogan through a careful evaluation of our experiences during 2005, and are convinced that the only way forward to address the fundamental challenges of our revolution is through local mass mobilisation. Unless our people stand up, mobilise, there shall be no better life for all.

For the SACP this means, amongst other things, a 2006 during which the majority of our people must struggle for the following:
 * Mobilising the working class to drive the resolutions of the Provincial Growth and Development Strategy
 * To struggle for accelerated land and agrarian reform and building of People’s Land Committees
 * To elect councillors committed to serving the interests of the workers and the poor
 * To earnestly implement the resolutions of the ANC’s July 2005 NGC
 * To struggle for a once-off amnesty for all those listed in the Credit Bureaux
 * To accelerate provision of basic services to all, especially the workers and the poor
 * To build a strong co-operative movement
 * To strengthen our Alliance and the unity of purpose in the entire democratic movement
 * To transform the current accumulation path to serve the interests of the overwhelming majority of our people, through a state-led industrial strategy

The SACP further also notes that 2006 will be the 45th anniversary of the establishment of Umkhonto WeSizwe and the 85th Anniversary of the founding of the SACP. We therefore use this occasion to salute all the former combatants of Umkhonto WeSizwe and all other combatants of armies of the former liberation movements for the role they played in bringing about a democratic South Africa. We are at the same time concerned about the socio-economic conditions of many of these cadres. We therefore call upon government to urgently attend to their plight, as part of addressing the needs of the majority of our people, and as a critical component of national reconciliation in our country

Seshupo Segole SACP Provincial Spokesperson South African Communist Party (Northern Cape) Tel - 053 8325302 Fax - 053 832855 Cell – 0829402966**
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