The South African Communist Party in the Moses Mabhida Province (KZN) held its scheduled Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) meeting from the 10-11th of November 2012.
The PEC discussed a number of issues including an onslaught on rural development which is being reduced into a political football by opposition parties.
Rural development is one of the five priorities which were identified by the Polokwane conference as needing an urgent attention. The SACP in the Moses Mabhida Province call for the rural development to be implemented without any hindrance from all forms of counter revolutionary forces.
We demand that the people of Inkandla should not be discriminated in government programmes to develop rural areas simply because they have the President of the Republic as one of their residents.
The PEC also resolved to campaign for the promulgation of an Act which will protect dignity of the Office of the President.
The PEC also condemned the recent media stunt by DA leader Hellen Zille in a recent Hollywood style "visit"to the Presidential residence in Inkandla. We believe that this was a cheap political point scoring by Zille and her stooges.
The PEC also discussed recent motion raised by a coalition of opposition parties in which they were calling for the President to step down. We believe that the motion had nothing to do with the said reasons but it was designed to boost a particular faction of the ANC against the president of the ANC and the Republic ahead of the historical conference which begins next month.
The PEC also discussed the recent report released by the Public Service Commission (PSC) in which it was confirmed that more than seventy percent of the state employees were doing business with the very same government that employs them. We believe that this is a clear case of conflict of interest and it must be condemned with the strongest possible terms.
We support the proposals of the PSC and will embark on the campaign to force government to promulgate an Act which will make it illegal for state employees to do business with the government. The PEC also reaffirms the call for the detenderisation of the state as one of the issues which will discourage the javelin-throwing habits of state employees.
The party also discussed the recent developments surrounding the employees of Mandla Matla Publishers (Ilanga Newspaper) and the reported dismissal of these employees. The PEC also discussed the industrial actions involving National Union of Mineworkers who have been on a protected strike for more than two months now.
In the light of the recent attacks on rural development which is inaccurately characterised as priorisation of Inkandla, the SACP will embark on a massive protest march in support of rural development which is currently taking place throughout the Republic. Rural development is one of the five priorities that were identified after the Polokwane conference as needing an urgent attention. We call on all disciplined cadres of the movement to support rural development as was agreed in Polokwane. The march will take place at Mthiyaqwa school and proceed to Inkandla Municipality next to a sports stadium.
The SACP in the Moses Mabhida Province is committed to the fight against corruption. It is for this reason that the party will embark on various campaigns to put pressure on the government to deal with government officials who are said to be doing business with the state.
We are also contemplating opening a hotline for all officials who are subjected to political peer pressure of dishing out tenders to certain individuals and interest groups.
In exercising solidarity with the employees of Ilanga Newspaper, we are calling on the people of South Africa to boycott Ilanga Newspaper. We are calling on progressive businesses and the government departments to refrain from advertising in Ilanga Newspaper. We believe that the attitude of Ilanga Newspaper owners and management is tantamount to desecrating on the grave of its founder and ANC's founding president John Langalibalele Dube.
Statement issued by SACP KwaZulu Natal Provincial Secretary Mr Themba Mthembu, November 12 2012
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