2005-11-09,+SACP+on+KZN+Land+Expropriation

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 * 8th November 2005**

**Press Statement on the Fracas between the Cape Town City Police and Members of the African National Congress**
The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Western Cape is dismayed and flummoxed by the manner in which the Provincial Leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) is dealing with internal political problems. The current Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) seemed to be dismally failing to unite the organization following an extremely divided provincial conference, instead comrades who are perceived to be part of a particular caucus during the conference or those perceived to have supported certain comrades during the provincial conference are harassed, abused, sidelined and purged using all the available resources at the disposal of the leadership including state resources.

It is public knowledge that all the comrades who have been suspended, charged and threatened by the current leadership are all those who happened to be critical about the manner in which the PEC operate, and are viewed as people who never voted for the current members of the PEC. While the real hooligans who physically attacked comrades inside ANC meetings and pulled the trigger of their firearms in ANC meetings are seen as real discipline cadres of the organization, and no charges against them. Some of those are still serving as public representatives let alone that the PEC is aware of those cases. This tendency of sidelining and purging comrades has manifested itself in many forums at Branch General Meetings and Regional General Councils etc. where mass based comrades are consistently sidelined and suspended. In the Southern Cape, Khayelitsha, Philippi, Karroo examples of purging are abound. It is against this context that the SACP in the Western Cape rejects and condemns in the strongest possible terms the use of state organs such as the City Police to resolve internal political problems within our organization. We concur with those calling for all political leaders to refrain from using state resources in order to settle political scores and maintain power within the political organization. The ANC as a progressive organization has a capacity to resolve any problem and challenge that confront it.

CONTACT:

Khaya Magaxa

Provincial Secretary

084 630 9885

Kaizer Mohau

Media Liaison Officer

South African Communist Party (SACP)

Tel: 011 339 3621/2

Fax: 011 339 4244/6880

Cell: 076 573 7764

Eamil: kaizer@sacp.org.za

Website: [|www.sacp.org.za]

Friday, 07 November 2005

SACP STATEMENT ON THE LAND EXPROPRIATIONS IN KWAZULU – NATAL
The South African Communist Party (SACP) welcomes another decisive step taken by the KZN provincial government following the North West Province to expropriate 60 farms.

As the SACP we view these expropriations as being the implementation of the main resolutions of the National Land Summit held earlier this year.

For us in the SACP and the broader landless community these expropriations are a reflection of the failure of the ‘willing seller, willing buyer’ principle, which is being used by the white agricultural capitalist class to stall and frustrate the process of land and agrarian transformation in our country and an impediment to government’s land reform programme.

The Summit also came to the conclusion that if land reform is to be accelerated, expropriation is one of the important tools to redress the historical injustice of land dispossession in our country.

As the SACP we regard these cases as a very important precedent, as they illustrate the extent to which farmers have overpriced land in our country, either to frustrate accelerated land reform or to become the major beneficiaries of government’s land reform programme at the expense of the landless. The land being expropriated was being sold exorbitantly.

However, as the SACP we wish to reiterate our call for the development of a comprehensive land and agrarian transformation strategy to create viable local farming communities throughout the length and breadth of our country, especially targeting the workers and the landless mass of our people.

As the SACP we fully support the actions to be taken by the KZN provincial government in this regard.

Kaizer Mohau Media Liaison Officer South African Communist Party (SACP) Tel: 011 339 3621/2 Fax: 011 339 4244/6880 Cell: 076 573 7764 Eamil: **kaizer@sacp.org.za** Website: [|**www.sacp.org.za**]