SACP NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION SEMINAR
On the 29th March 2010, the SACP will convene a National Anti-Corruption Seminar in taking forward its 2009 Red October Campaign on Corruption and the resolutions of our 2nd Special National Congress on corruption. The seminar will be held at Parktonian Hotel, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, starting at 08H30.
Members of the press are hereby invited to the Seminar.
Our aim is to mobilise all interested parties into a national effort to fight corruption organised under what we would propose as an End Corruption Campaigns Coalition. Various role players have been invited to be part of this initiative.
As part of this effort, we are circulation a pledge (see below) for members of the public and interested organisations including the media houses as an important partner in the fight against corruption to amend and append their signatures to the pledge.
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The SACP is convening a national seminar on corruption on the 29th March 2010 at Parktonian Hotel in Johannesburg, starting at 08h30. All organisations are invited.
We are circulating the draft declaration for inputs, comments and endorsement by a variety of organisations which support this call. Our intention is to establish a programme in a campaign format to expose and fight corruption in all facets of South African life especially in the public sector which is the principal adjudicator public funds from national to local government level through the tendering and other procurement processes.
The campaign will seek to bring together a variety of already existing organisations and institutions that fight corruption to share experiences and chart the way forward on a joint programme to mobilise society against corruption. We seek to establish an overarching forum, anchored on mass mobilisation in the fight against the scourge of corruption.
We fully recognise the initiatives taken by the South African government to fight corruption and to foster a morally responsible society on the use and accountability of public funds and on conduct of public representatives.
We, participants at this National Anti-Corruption Seminar convened by the SACP recognising that:
1. There is an urgent need to give effect and meaning to the constitutional rights of socio-economic well being of all South African citizens as enshrined in our Bill of Rights.
2. These freedoms are hard won rights that many have laid their lives for in order for us to enjoy.
3. That democracy and freedom will mean less if it does not serve to improve the material conditions of our people.
4. Cognisance of the fact that corruption denies many people of opportunities offered by the democratic government to improve their lives
5. That corruption denies the poor majority in our country of their livelihoods and robs them of their future and compromises basic services due to the poor and vulnerable in society.
We are conscious that most liberation and democratic project have been greatly undermined by the practice of corruption, rent-seeking and various other practices wherein in those countries the political elite hijacked the democratic project for their own narrow outlook. We are also conscious of the fact that the capitalist system continues to on a daily basis commit major crimes against the ordinary people and this go unnoticed.
We therefore commit ourselves to:
1. Establish the End Corruption Campaign Coalition in order to fight corruption in a principled way in both the public and the private sector.
2. To work with all law enforcement agencies including Chapter 9 institutions to fight corruption in South Africa.
3. To mobilise our communities to be able to play a meaningful role in the public participation process in order to ensure effective service delivery and sustainable livelihoods by fighting corrupt practices like price fixing in areas such as banking, food supply and so forth.
We, signatories of this pledge, pledge to work with all interested parties to end corruption!
This pledge is supported by the following organisations:
1. South African Communist Party
2. Young Communist League
Send proposed changes to the pledge and appending your signatures as individuals and organisations to [email protected]
Statement issued by Malesela Maleka, SACP spokesperson, March 26 2010
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