SACP KZN Statement on the Forthcoming Local Government Elections
With only few days remaining before the crucial 2011 local government elections, the SACP in KwaZulu-Natal and its alliance partners, under the leadership of the ANC will be unleashing the final push to ensure an overwhelming victory for the African National Congress.
Since the election campaign started the party has deployed all its manpower including the top leaders throughout the country to this campaign.
Moreover it has also dedicated its programmes, such as the Chris Hani Commemorative month of April, towards a victory for the ANC in the forthcoming local government elections.
The SACP leaders together with its alliance leaders have in the past months visited hundreds of homes throughout the province, put election posters in almost every village, town and township. The party has also talked to communities through various meetings and rallies.
We may not have had a chance to use the modern media such as advertising on the print and electronic media but we are convinced that these tried and tested traditional forms of campaigning that we have applied together with our alliance partners will result in the overwhelming victory of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal especially in municipalities that were not in control of our movement.
As we enter in the final phase of campaigning, the next few days will therefore be characterised by intensified campaigning by thousands of our volunteers, leaders and structures throughout the province.
No part of the province will escape the invasion of the SACP volunteers waving the black, green and gold flags of the ANC.
We are therefore calling on South Africans especially the rural poor and the working class to come out in their numbers to guarantee an overwhelming victory of the ANC. We say this because we know there is no other part in the country which has the interests of the poor and the workers more than the ANC.
We know that even in the remote rural villages where basic services such as running water, electricity and roads have not yet arrived the ANC is the only vehicle to deliver those services in all our communities.
In closing we would like to register our dismay at the thuggish behaviour of certain individuals who masquerade as ANC leaders or supporters but who are hell bent on putting the very ANC they claim to support into disrepute.
We condemn with the contempt it deserves the derogatory remarks that were chanted by a bunch of thugs masquerading as ANC outside the home of our General Secretary Dr Blade Nzimande recently.
We equally condemn the silence from the leaders who were accompanied by these political hotheads and thugs who were purportedly doing the door-door campaigning while hurling insults at our leadership instead of convincing people to vote for our movement.
This behaviour is foreign to the ANC Alliance and it can only be demonstrated by the people who have no interests of the movement, its values and national programmes but are desperately trying to position themselves to be some kind of superpowers within our movement.
The people of this country will not elect greedy individuals who have made it their business to embark on anti-communist campaigns because they want to use the movement as a vehicle to self- enrichment and aggrandisement.
However the SACP in Kwazulu Natal call for the voters in Msunduze Municipality to remain calm and discipline and must not allow acts of provocation to defocus them from our primary objective of ensuring the overwhelming victory of the ANC on 18th May 2011
Statement issued by Themba Mthembu, SACP Provincial Secretary, KZN, May 12 2011
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