The SACP said in a statement that general secretary Solly Mapaila will deliver the party’s founding anniversary statement. Picture: Itumeleng English Independent Newspapers
The SACP will hold a rally to mark its 103rd anniversary in the Western Cape on Sunday.
The party has chosen Oliver Tambo Hall, also known as Mew Way Hall, in Khayelitsha as the venue for the anniversary rally.
The SACP said in a statement that general secretary Solly Mapaila will deliver the party’s founding anniversary statement.
“The statement will cover the SACP’s response to key political and economic developments in our country and internationally, and a focus on tackling the cost-of-living crisis and advancing the National Health Insurance (NHI) implementation as a key theme.”
The representatives of the ANC-led tripartite alliance, including ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi, and SA National Civic Organisation (Sanco) president Richard Mkhungo, will deliver messages of support along with the Young Communist League and international solidarity organisations.
The SACP was founded as the Communist Party of South Africa at its inaugural conference in Cape Town between July 30 and August 1, 1921.
The SACP said it has made an immense contribution to the struggle to end oppressive colonial and apartheid regimes.
“The party was a dependable force in the national struggle to achieve the liberation of the racially oppressed majority, establish democracy and end patriarchy.
“This struggle culminated in our hard-won first democratic elections that marked the April 1994 democratic breakthrough.”
According to the SACP, it continued to make an important contribution to build and expand the hard-won democratic space in the country and campaign for national transformation and development to raise the standards of living of the people.
“While the SACP welcomes the fact that millions of our people have gained access to human rights and seen improvements in their lives, among others, as a direct fruit of the policies it campaigned for, the party is deeply worried that the exploitative capitalist system and its imperialist-driven neo-liberal policy prescriptions are steadfastly holding back progress towards a society where there will be no exploitation of one person by another and its consequences.
“It is fundamentally due to the capitalist system and its neo-liberal policy prescriptions that South Africa has a population of millions of people who are unemployed and millions more who still live under conditions of mass poverty, sky-high inequalities and uneven development.”
Cape Times