2005-01-13,+SACP+2005+Programme+of+Action+(11+November+2004)

=**SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY**=

ANNUAL PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR 2005: SUMMARY

 * WHAT DO WE WANT TO ACHIEVE?**

B. We want to intensify ideological, theoretical and political work amongst our cadres.
 * 1) We want cadres to build a Communist Party capable of realising its Medium-Term Vision.
 * 1) We want to take our programmatic perspectives to the workers and the poor.
 * 2) We want communist activists and cadres to intensify activism in local areas.
 * 3) We want to strengthen branches into dynamic, exciting, campaigning & functional structures.


 * WHAT ARE THE CAMPAIGNS? WHAT MUST BRANCHES, DISTRICTS AND PROVINCES DO?**

A. Access to essential services: know your neighbourhood campaign || || || o Political education, training and capacitation of branches and districts on sustainable livelihoods & basic services o Monitoring of the campaign o Engage municipalities, government departments, etc o Supporting and strengthening branches to undertake the above work. ||
 * BRANCHES**
 * BRANCHES**
 * DISTRICTS & PROVINCES**
 * Door-to-door work
 * Monitoring delivery of free basic services
 * Monitoring HIV/AIDS programmes in local clinics, hospitals & local organisations
 * Work with the ANC branch, ward councilor, existing local organisations, relevant government offices and departments, etc.
 * Community mobilisation, community meetings, leaflets, local campaigns, etc.
 * Registration of those who qualify for social security grants
 * Registration of those who qualify for social security grants
 * o **Coordinating campaigns and struggles

B. Building of co-operatives || || || o Recruiting Party members to join the Dora Tamana Savings and Credit Co-operative o Identifying & working with local co-ops o Mobilising and deploying Party cadres as Community Development Workers || o Building at least one co-operative in each district during 2005 o At least 1 political school on co-operatives o Working with and in co-operative organisations o Engaging municipalities to promote co-operatives o Contribute to IDPs & LED strategies || o At least 1 political school on co-operatives o Working with and in co-operative organisations o Engaging provincial governments to promote co-operatives o Coordination of overall work on CDWs ||
 * BRANCHES**
 * BRANCHES**
 * DISTRICTS**
 * PROVINCES**

C. The land and agrarian reform campaign || || || o Access to basic and essential services in rural areas and farms || || o Support & coordination of districts in their work on the campaign ||
 * BRANCHES**
 * BRANCHES**
 * DISTRICTS**
 * PROVINCES**
 * Building People’s Land Committees
 * Identification of unused land
 * Campaign for access to land
 * Mobilising communities on food security programmes
 * Monitoring living and working conditions in farms
 * Cases of abuse, exploitation and racism
 * Cases of abuse, exploitation and racism
 * Mobilisation of farm workers into trade unions
 * Stories & articles for the Champion Sithole page/insert in Umsebenzi
 * Building Party structures in farms and rural areas
 * Support, education & coordination of PLCs
 * Strategies & programmes for access & utilisation of land
 * People’s Land Tribunals & Forums to prepare for the Provincial and National Land Summits
 * Political education on the land & agrarian campaign
 * Working with existing Advice Centres and building new ones
 * Preparations for Provincial Land Summits
 * Working with progressive land and other relevant organisations on above work

D. The financial sector campaign || || || o Political education, support & coordination of branches & districts ||
 * BRANCHES & DISTRICTS**
 * BRANCHES & DISTRICTS**
 * PROVINCES**
 * Actively looking for and mobilisation around cases in communities such as evictions, HIV/AIDS discrimination in the financial sector, bank services,
 * Formulating local demands & mobilisation around these
 * Mobilising and educating communities about savings and credit co-operatives
 * Building FSCC structures at district level
 * Building FSCC structures at district level
 * Building provincial FSCC structures
 * Provincial Public Hearings on financial sector transformation

E. The local government election campaign || || || o Coordinating provincial strategy ||
 * BRANCHES & DISTRICTS**
 * BRANCHES & DISTRICTS**
 * PROVINCES**
 * building progressive and vibrant ward committees that function, are democratic and are focused on community mobilisation, participation and empowerment
 * implementing the //Access to essential services: know your neighbourhood campaign//
 * Deployment and activism of communists in SGBs, local health structures, CPFs, etc
 * Deployment and activism of communists in SGBs, local health structures, CPFs, etc

i. Branches and units – 5 new debit orders or R100 every month per branch ii. Each DEC member – 2 debit orders or R40 per month iii. Each PEC member - 2 debit orders or R40 per month iv. CC – each CC member, at least 2 new debit orders or R200 per month v. DEC and BEC members to pay their levy by 28 February vi. National & provincial debit order offensive (12-month programme) targeting specific sectors (government, trade unions, municipalities, NGOs) o 1 fundraising activity per province to raise a minimum of R100,000 =**SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY**=
 * 1) Financial self-sufficiency
 * Intensification of the debit order and levies campaign
 * o **1 fundraising activity per district to raise a minimum of R10,000

ANNUAL PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR 2005

 * Communist cadres to the front…Build working class power for a better life: the year of the SACP cadre and the Freedom Charter!**


 * 1. ****INTRODUCTION**


 * 1.1 **The overall strategic objective of our 2005 Annual Programme of Action (POA) is to intensify our propaganda and agitation against capitalism informed and inspired into analysis and action by the concrete conditions of life and experience of the workers and the poor. Learning from our theory and practice over the last few years, we have concluded that, indeed, capitalism has failed the workers and the poor since the 1994 democratic breakthrough.
 * 1.2 **And thus the programmatic theme for the 2005 POA: **“Communist cadres to the front… Build working class power for a better life: the year of the SACP cadre and the Freedom Charter!”**


 * 1.3 ****Goals and Pillars of the Annual 2005 POA**

1.3.1 The **goals** of the 2005 PoA are to: 1.3.1.1 Prepare our cadres to build a Communist Party capable of realisation of the MTV by intensifying theoretical and practical work amongst our cadres 1.3.1.2 Take our programmatic perspectives to the workers and the poor by focusing our cadres on intensified activism, localised and high contact with the masses of our people 1.3.1.3 Intensify our ideological work, political education and cadreship development in order to build consciousness about, and commitment to the kind of communist cadre we need, and to build dynamic, exciting, campaigning & functional branches 1.3.1.4 Deepen discussions and debate to enrich our Marxism in theory and practice 1.3.2 This POA is a consolidation of our programmes and campaigns over the last 5 years. 1.3.3 To achieve these goals, the Communist Party in 2005 will undertake the following **six campaigns**: 1.3.3.1 Access to essential services: know your neighbourhood campaign 1.3.3.2 Building of co-operatives 1.3.3.3 The land and agrarian reform campaign 1.3.3.4 The financial sector campaign 1.3.3.5 The local government election campaign 1.3.3.6 Financial self-sufficiency campaign 1.3.4 The theme and the six campaigns are our practical means and steps to realise our programmatic slogan, //“Socialism is the Future Build it Now … With and For the Workers and the Poor”,// and the central goal of our Medium-Term Vision (MTV) to build and consolidate working class power in all spheres of society. The theme and the campaigns are a concrete elaboration of the methods and strategy to a detailed programme of action to realise the MTV.

===1.4 The role of a communist cadre, the need for enhanced communist activism and our organisational machinery: let us improve the quality and content of political and organisational life in our structures!===

1.4.1 **F**or the Communist Party to realise its objectives, it requires to model, harness and build itself as a highly disciplined, mobile, portable, compact, flexible, potent, dynamic, activist and exciting strike force ready for any eventuality in the course of the working class struggle for the deepening of the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) and socialism. This requires a special and advanced communist cadre. 1.4.2 This requires the strengthening and improvement of the quality and content of political and organisational life in our branches, districts and provinces. The success of our programme and campaigns depends on living branches which are highly visible and which have the closest possible contact with each Party member and our people in general. 1.4.3 In other words, our programme and campaigns are not possible without lively, exciting, functional, effective and campaigning branches. Many of our branches are bogged down by a bureaucratic inertia leading to them to be ineffective, boring and uncreative in taking forward the Party programme. In all our work, we must build and enhance the political and organisational capacity of our branches, districts and provinces to function and implement this programme. Our meetings (Provincial Councils, PEC meetings, District Councils, Branch General Meetings) must not just be held for the sake of it: we must ensure that their structure, format, purpose, and content is activist and programmatic, and action-orientated.

2.1.1 Teams of Communist Party volunteers must go door-to-door to: · find out about the living conditions of our people · ascertain the extent of poverty in households and communities · ensure that indigent households get help from the state and the community they live in (social grants, indigency policies of local governments, etc.) · monitor local HIV/AIDS programmes (prevention campaigns, access to medicines, provision of drugs in local clinics and hospitals, etc.) 2.1.2 Every volunteer must have a file to keep the records of their door-to-door visit and actions taken to address problems encountered. 2.1.3 Every volunteer must report to the branch on a regular basis. The branch must meet and discuss these reports regularly, plan and implement action, review results and plan the next steps. 2.1.4 The branch must link up with the ANC branch, ward councilor, existing local organisations, relevant government offices and departments, NGOs and Party district on the information and problems received. 2.1.5 The branch must develop a programme to address the information and problems received. 2.1.6 Branches must pay specific attention to how the commitment to deliver and provide free basic amount of water and electricity is met in each locality. If these services are not available, branches must proactively engage the local councillors and the municipality and mobilise communities behind the realization of this commitment. 2.1.7 The branch must mobilise the community through community meetings, leaflets, local campaigns, struggles based on the information and problems received, building local organs of popular working class power based on the information and problems received, and many other local interventions. 2.1.8 Volunteers and the branch can mobilise communities for the registration of those who qualify for social security grants and the general education of communities on social security and socio-economic rights. 2.1.9 In addition to the above, Party branches in rural areas must focus the above work on: · Building of People’s Land Committees · Identification of unused land · To monitor living and working conditions of farm workers and dwellers · Identify and mobilise around cases of abuse, exploitation and racism · Identify and mobilise around access to basic and essential services in rural areas and farms 2.1.10 The Party focus is on access to basic and essential services but the problems are not just about these. Violence against women and children, campaigning for proper street lights for example, alcohol and drug abuse amongst young people, etc. are just some of the local issues and problems that our branches will come across and that they need to be able to mobilise around as part of our programme.
 * 2. ****ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL SERVICES: KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD CAMPAIGN**
 * 2.1 ****What must branches do?**
 * 2.1 ****What must branches do?**

2.2.1 Identifying and prioritising provision of basic and essential services 2.2.2 Identifying the providers of these essential goods and services in both private and public sectors and analysing why and how affordable access is impeded 2.2.3 Political education, training and capacitation of branches and districts on sustainable livelihoods 2.2.4Develop strategies and programmes, and mobilise resources to intervene in relevant decision-making processes and to engage municipalities, government departments, etc. 2.2.5Coordinating campaigns and struggles for access to essential and basic services 2.2.6Supporting and strengthening branches to undertake the above work
 * 2.2 ****Tasks for districts and provinces**


 * 2.3 ****Why should the Communist Party know and act in communities?**

2.3.1 Through this campaign, the Communist Party must be in touch with the daily problems and needs of communities, and we must have the information, capacity and resources that can help and mobilise communities to address their problems. People come to our Party branches for help with problems like pensions or state grants, evictions, repossessions of property, unfair dismissals or family problems. In poor communities people are still not aware of their rights. In addition, food, water, electricity, housing, transport, education, health care, communications, information and financial services are basic and essential but many communities do not have access to these. In other communities, local stokvels, burial societies, women’s projects, youth clubs, etc. have many problems and need assistance and support about how to build, sustain themselves and mobilise resources. 2.3.2 Giving people in a community practical advice to help them with, and to mobilise them around daily problems and access to basic and essential services must be the core of Party work in local areas. Communist Party structures must know their communities better and be better able to apply the Party programme in their localities and in turn learn from communities to inform the Party programme. Party activists must root themselves in communities and be at the centre of resolving community and other social problems and mobilising communities into struggles and campaigns. In this way, the Communist Party would also be mobilising communities to build sustainable livelihoods, households and communities. 2.3.3 This work is also about proactively influencing the agendas both of the government and of the interests controlling the economy and thereby challenging the current dominant interests.


 * 1) **BUILDING OF CO-OPERATIVES**

3.1.1 Recruiting Party members to join the Dora Tamana Savings and Credit Co-operative 3.1.2 uilding at least one co-operative in each district during 2005 3.1.3 At least 1 political school on co-operatives per district during 2005 3.1.4 Working with and in co-operative organisations 3.1.5 Engaging municipalities to promote co-operatives, through favourable tender and procurement policies, LED strategies, IDPs, support services and facilities for co-operatives 3.1.6 Mobilise and organise women through co-operatives 3.1.7 Taking part in the development and implementation of IDPs and LED strategies (essentially driving a Party contribution to a local growth and development strategy based on the GDS agreements) and ensuring that these are transformative and progressive. 3.1.8 Mobilising and deploying as many Party cadres as possible as Community Development Workers.
 * 3.1 ****Tasks for branches and districts are:**


 * 4. ****THE LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM CAMPAIGN**

4.1.1 Mobilisation of farm workers into trade unions 4.1.2 Addressing cases of farm workers linked to developing 4.1.3 Campaign for access to land in both urban and rural areas 4.1.4 Mobilising communities on food security programmes in both urban and rural areas 4.1.5 Contributing to the Champion Sithole Page in Umsebenzi (proposed as a monthly page/insert in Umsebenzi on conditions of farm workers and their struggles) and distributing Umsebenzi to farm workers 4.1.6 Building Party structures in farms and rural areas 4.1.7 Building of Peoples Land Committees (PLCs) linked to building of Party structures in farms and rural areas 4.1.8 Concrete measures to access and utilise productive land for settlement, household food security and co-operatives, including the identification of unused land 4.1.9 Taking forward demands of land campaign in local areas – formulating local demands and struggling to achieve these demands; mass meetings; tribunals; meetings with government departments, farmers, etc. as part of compiling people’s voices and demands for the Provincial and National Land Summits
 * 4.1 ****Tasks for branches and districts**

4.2 Tasks for provinces and nationally 4.2.1 Taking forward theoretical work, political education and cadreship development on land and agrarian reform, working with the CHI. 4.2.2 Working with existing Advice Centres and building new ones where these do not exist 4.2.3 Active campaigning in support of, and to achieve the Red October campaign demands 4.2.4 Preparations for Provincial Land Summits 4.2.5 Preparations for the National Land Summit
 * 4.2.6 **Active support for the state, with unions, etc., in potential struggle with mining giants and rich farmers in demanding massive compensation for land and mineral rights
 * 4.2.7 **Sustaining the Champion Sithole page/insert in Umsebenzi
 * 4.2.8 **Working with progressive land and other relevant organisations on above work


 * 5. ****THE FINANCIAL SECTOR CAMPAIGN**

5.1.1 Political education and information dissemination to Party members 5.1.2 Actively looking for and mobilisation around cases in communities such as evictions, HIV/AIDS discrimination in the financial sector, bank services, etc. and accessing relevant services, e.g. from legal advice offices, Black Sash, etc. 5.1.3 Formulating local demands with programmes and mobilisation to win these demands: mass meetings, meetings with local banks, etc. 5.1.4 Mobilising and educating communities about savings and credit co-operatives 5.1.5 Outreach to, working with and building unity of burial societies, stokvels, savings clubs, spaza owners, etc. in local areas around local problems and issues 5.1.6 Building FSCC structures at district level based on building networks, ongoing campaigns and mass mobilisation.
 * 5.1 ****Tasks for branches and districts**

5.2 Tasks for provinces and nationally 5.2.1 Taking forward theoretical work, political education and cadreship development on the financial sector campaign 5.2.2 Building provincial FSCC structures based on building networks, ongoing campaigns and mass mobilisation 5.2.3 Mobilise for Provincial Public Hearings on financial sector transformation (informed by cases and local demands from branches and districts) 5.2.4 NEDLAC participation focusing on the implementation of the August 2002 Financial Sector Summit Agreement 5.2.5 Participation and struggles in the Financial Sector Charter Council 5.2.6 Focus on policy and legislation (with priorities being the Co-operatives’ Bill, Co-operative Banks Bill, Consumer Credit Bill, Regulation of Credit Bureaus, 5.2.7 Building our own financial institutions (DTSACCO, SACCOs in local areas, Co-operative Bank, democratisation of workers’ retirement funds, etc.)


 * 6. ****THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION CAMPAIGN**

6.1.1 Our overriding goal is an overwhelming ANC victory. 6.1.2 The Party must use the election campaign to implement its overall programme and to strengthen itself guided by our programmatic slogan, the MTV and our medium-term strategy. 6.1.3 Building the alliance from below before, during and after the election campaign through: · ensuring an alliance-driven election campaign · an alliance-driven drafting and development of the election manifesto with popular participation · a common alliance approach and programme of implementation of the manifesto · building progressive and vibrant ward committees that function, are democratic and are focused on community mobilisation, participation and empowerment · implementing the //Access to essential services: know your neighbourhood campaign// · Deployment and activism of communists in SGBs, local health structures, CPFs, etc. 6.1.4 Mobilisation of our structures for the election and fundraising strategy for the Party to meaningfully participate in the election campaign. 6.1.5 Specific Communist Party activities in the election campaign 6.1.6 Identification of key cadres that should strategically be deployed to ensure qualitative and quantitative presence of communists in the election lists and 6.1.7 Clarifying roles, responsibilities and accountability of ANC public representatives who are communists to the Communist Party. Public representatives who are Party members must be given very concrete tasks to do in their constituencies and in their other work as public representatives. It will be on this basis that the Communist Party will support the nomination and continued service of communists as public representatives. We need to develop very concrete guidelines in this respect. These guidelines could include the following: · Building of Party branches and districts wherever MPs, MPLs and councilors are located and ensuring that, at least, these structures are able to implement specific and regular Party activities (Red October, Hani month, anniversary month). · Taking forward the banks campaign · Building of, and support for co-operatives · Taking forward the land and agrarian reform campaign · Provision of regular reports to districts and branches 6.1.8 The thrust of specific Party activities in the election campaign should be to mobilise our people into sustained and ongoing action for access to essential and basic services and for sustainable livelihoods, households and communities. Therefore, the Party must focus on the following specific activities: · Development and public release of a Communist Party Elections Message/Manifesto //· //The //Access to essential services: know your neighbourhood campaign// · The financial sector and land campaigns as additional platforms through local demands · Mobilisation in rural areas and farms · The 2005 Red October Campaign · Focus on the Mobilisation of the Youth
 * 6.1 ****Key outcomes for the Communist Party in the 2005/6 local government election campaign**


 * 1) **FINANCIAL SELF-SUFFICIENCY**

7.1 Intensification of the debit order and levies campaign 7.1.1 Branches and units – 5 new debit orders or worth R100 every month per branch 7.1.2 Each DEC member – 2 debit orders or R40 per month (for the entire DEC, 20 new debit orders or R2 000 every month) 7.1.3 Each PEC member - 2 debit orders or R40 per month (for the entire PEC, 40 new debit orders or R800 every month (each PEC member must raise 2 to 3 debit orders a month) 7.1.4 CC members – 60 new debit orders or R6 000 every month (each CC member must raise at least 2 new debit orders per month) 7.1.5 All DEC and BEC members to pay their levy by 28 February 7.1.6 Implementation of the national & provincial debit order offensive (12-month programme) targeting specific sectors (government, trade unions, municipalities, NGOs) 7.2 1 fundraising activity per province to raise a minimum of R100,000
 * 7.3 **1 fundraising activity per district to raise a minimum of R10,000


 * 8. ****IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY**


 * 8.1 ****Intensification of cadreship development and political education**

8.1.1 Tasks for branches and districts 8.1.1.1 Each district to hold at least one political school a year 8.1.1.2 All Party branches to run monthly political education forums, outside of normal branch meeting, based on the Umsebenzi Political Education Series (to be launched in January 2005), the African Communist and other material from nation, provincial and district political schools/general education work

8.1.2 Tasks for districts and provinces 8.1.2.1 Each province and district to hold at least 2 political schools based on a common national curriculum but informed by local needs 8.1.2.2 All Party provinces and districts to co-ordinate Party participation in socialist forums working with COSATU locals and regions 8.1.2.3 Use key dates for district political education forums with a common dedicated topic (e.g. September 24 – “Our Marxism, Heritage, Culture and the battle of ideas in South African society”; 21 March – “Our Marxism and Human Rights”; July 26 – Debate the Freedom Charter in the current context).

8.1.3 National tasks

8.1.3.1 Holding a Communist University fostering public debate from a left perspective
===8.1.3.2 Consolidation of joint SACP-COSATU political education work through the Chris Hani Brigade, working with the Chris Hani Institute as part of building a National Commissariat for cadreship development===

8.1.3.4 Development of a Party curriculum and induction pack with content focusing on:
· The financial sector · Co-operatives and sustainable livelihoods · Land and agrarian reform · 11th Congress Party Programme · Introduction to tools of analysis
 * · ****Party Building Manual**
 * NB** - In other words, our political education programme and activities must not be out of sync with our campaigns as the tendency has normally been to focus on Marxist classics without relating these to real struggles.

8.1.3.6 Production of Red Papers (4-5 page discussion documents) by CC Commissions on identified themes
8.1.4 The overall objective for this cadreship development and political education work is to provide a basis and platform for informed intellectual and strategic debate in the Party and to equip Party cadres with necessary ideological tools of analysis to understand and take part in the broader ideological debates and struggles in the alliance, media, etc.

8.2.1 Zimbabwe 8.2.2 Swaziland 8.2.3 Cuba 8.2.4 Palestine 8.2.5 Solidarity Centre 8.2.6 Bilateral relations and other international issues 8.2.7 Taking forward the Party’s proposed International Left Platform (June 2000)
 * 8.2 ****International work (led by national with clear roles for provinces and districts)**

8.3 **Key anniversaries and dates in 2005** 8.3.1 We always use our key anniversaries as platforms to take forward our programme themes and campaigns. Key dates and anniversaries must be utilised as moments in the implementation of our programme, rather than as separate, extra activities. 8.3.2 10th Anniversary of the death of Cde Joe Slovo – Organise national and provincial seminars around the type of Communist Party cadre we need, as part of launching our Year of the SACP Cadre. 8.3.3 21 March – launch in every district of the //Access to essential services: know your neighbourhood campaign,// followed by activities throughout April, May and June (with a focus on the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter on 26 June) 8.3.4 Special Congress – Focus: Vitalisation of the realisation of our MTV 8.3.5 **The 2005 Chris Hani Month** – to be used for the Special Congress and possibly link it to intensification of know your neighbourhood campaign through visible door-to-door work and launching PLCs. 8.3.6 Sustainable Livelihoods Conference 8.3.7 **June 16** – Since 1994 government has correctly led these commemorations. However, the potential downside with this sometimes is that the voice of our movement and the Alliance gets submerged and we only address youth as government, and less as ANC, SACP or COSATU. We should strive for a mix and balance between government and movement led commemorations, particularly focusing on mobilisation of local communities around such commemorations. Whilst we should mobilise all communists and our people to participate in the government programme, we should also ask the YCL to organise local commemorations, at least one in each province. Our focus should be on mobilising youth for elections (depending on whether the elections would have taken place or not); popularise the YCL, send strong socialist messages to the youth of our country and take forward the SACP 2005 PoA, particularly on HIV/AIDS and mobilising young women. 8.3.9 **84th Anniversary month** – districts and provinces must use this month to focus on relevant themes from the 6 campaigns for 2005. International Co-operatives’ Day is also on 8 July. 8.3.10 **August 9** – Again, we should strive for an appropriate mix between government and the movement in celebrating South African Women’s Day. Our Gender and Social Transformation Commission, working with national, provincial and district structures, should strive to hold some activities, as part of our focus on women’s organisation and recruiting more women into the Party. This could include the holding of a Dora Tamana Gender Conference. 8.3.11 **Red October 2005** – The theme will obviously be decided by the Central Committee closer to the time, but use it to take forward our 2005 POA. 8.3.12 **Other anniversaries and dates** – can be used for district political education forums. 8.3.13 Local government elections 8.4 **District Congresses and Branch AGMs** must be used to reinforce the 2005 POA and the concept of a membership renewal month during September and October. 8.5 Focused and dedicated organisation and recruitment of women and youth through the 2005 campaigns. Provinces, districts and branches must develop concrete plans and programmes to achieve this. 8.6 The role of Umsebenzi, the AC and other publications in Party building and political education work. 8.7 Developing a workplan and programme for the realisation of a recruitment target for 2005 overall, for each province and district with the general guide being: 9. At least 5 branches in each and every one of the 231 local municipalities 10. At least 1 district in each and everyone of the 47 district municipalities and the 6 metropolitan municipalities 11. At least 5 branches in the major townships and urban areas (at least 20 major townships) 11.1Building Party Discussion Forums for elected representatives in every legislature and municipality, and sectoral units at national and provincial levels. 11.2The work cycle – for effective and systematic harmonisation and co-ordination of the work of all Party structures. For instance after every Central Committee meeting, we should convene Provincial Councils to report on the CC and use them as mechanisms for feedback to the CC via the PBC. The national PBC must follow every Provincial Council in order to prepare for the next CC, guided by feedback from provincial councils. In essence our work cycle should be the following: CC – PCs – DCs – BGMs – DCs - PECs - PBC – CC. 11.3Effective reporting and accountability using the new reporting format by provinces, districts, branches and CC Commissions.
 * 8.3.8 ****50th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter**