SACP+welcomes+Progressive+Womens+Movement

Thursday, 09 March 2006
=SACP WELCOMES THE FORMATION OF THE PROGRESSIVE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT=

The South African Communist Party (SACP) welcomes the initiative by the women of our country to form a national progressive women’s movement. As we have said before there couldn’t be a better year for this initiative than 2006, the 50th anniversary of the historic August 9 Women’s March to Pretoria.

This is central in deepening the struggle for the liberation and social emancipation of women in our country and the world in general.

The SACP believes that the mainstay and key motive force in rebuilding a progressive women’s movement must be the working and the poor women of our country. Their concerns and interests must be the central driving force of this initiative. It is for this reason that the SACP believes that a broad front of progressive women’s organisation can only be viable if led by the working class, whilst simultaneously bringing in as wide a range of other layers of society into such a movement.

The SACP would like to further congratulate all those comrades elected into the steering committee of this important initiative, amongst those being the SACP’s Head of its Gender and Social Transformation Commission, Cde Ncumisa Kondlo.

The SACP pledges its full support and active participation in this important initiative.


 * Issued by:

Blade Nzimande General Secretary

CONTACT: Solly Mapaila SACP National Organiser Tel: 011 339 3621/2 Fax: 011 339 4244/6880 Mobile: 082 886 3526 Email: solly@sacp.org.za  Website: www.sacp.org.za 