SACP GREATER TSHWANE MESSAGE OF SUPPORT TO THE 4TH CONGRESS OF NEHAWU TSHWANE REGION HELD ON THE 15-16 MARCH 2012 AT COLLOSIUM HOTEL Cde APSON SEPADI MAKAUNG SACP Acting District Secretary Comrade Chairperson NEHAWU Regional Leadership The Leadership of NEHAWU Province and National The Leadership of our revolutionary alliance partners NEHAWU Shop Stewards gathered here today to execute their mandate from deferent branches. The SACP Greater Tshwane salutes you all in the name of our socialist revolution. AMANDLA! It is an honor for us as the SACP Greater Tshwane District to address the largest region of the public sector union that has about 235,000 members. A region that is responsible to recruit the public sector workers across the administration of our Capital City of the Republic South African. The public sector union in the biggest municipality in Africa and the third largest municipality in the world. Comrades, your congress takes place in this year of the congresses and conferences. We are having SACP Gauteng Congress on the 23-25 March 2012, ANCYL Tshwane Regional conference on the 23-25 March 2012, ANC Policy Conference in June 2012, SACP National Congress on the 11-15 July 2012, COSATU National Congress in September 2012, ANC National Elective Conference in December 2012, ANC Annual Centenary Events happening across the country and many more events unmentioned. This is the busy year in our congress movement. And therefore, each and every alliance partner should make self-introspection, understand the past conditions, analyze the present dynamics and develop appropriate strategy to confront political and socio-economic fragmentation in our contemporary South Africa. NEHAWU in Tshwane is automatically given a work of ensuring an appropriate service delivery through its engagement of national departments that are situated in our District. You are equally in the better position to lead a national campaign against corruption in the difference departments through our shop stewards who are working in those national departments. This Capital City also have about 130 embassies and that simply translate to us that we can help our broader movement by providing scientific analysis pertaining to the international struggle and leading the struggle for party to party relation. Comrades, the Minister of Finance has just tabled Trillion Budget and his budget was more of reflection of Keynesian economic model as it was like the one applied by the American President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 when he was responding to great depression. Gordhan also applied Keynesian model by focusing on Relief from unemployment, Recovery of Economic activity and Growth and Reform of Economy away from consumption to infrastructure development. This clearly tells us that state will play more roles in this financial year. NEHAWU shop stewards must therefore monitor how this Trillion will spent so as to avoid the situation similar to Limpopo province. Yes, it looks like enough resources but the supply and the demand cannot be at equilibrium if in deed our tools of analyses is guided by our empirical observation related to numerous service delivery protest taking place in the country. English Proverb “money is a good servant but a bad master”. NEHAWU you are the people’s ear and eyes in this government, please play your role. The SACP calls upon all members of NEHAWU to participate actively in statutory bodies. It is importance for every COSATU member to partake in ward committees, school governing bodies, community policing forums, health committees etc. So as to strengthen participatory local appraisal with the aims of directing intergraded development plan and that can be the only way of pleasing the Saul of the national democratic revolution (NDR) as a direct route to socialism. Your role as the transformative union must always differ from workerist tendency. We also call upon all members of NEHAWU to join the SACP and by so doing is to help us to be the leading political force of South African working-class whose main interest it promotes the struggle for NRD and to achieve Socialism. SACP by nature is the brain child of the workers and the poor, taking it from ineffective Labour Party to progressive Socialist International League, subsequently formation of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1921. We have also noted that the government became the leading employer of majority of the workers in the country and we therefore, request NEHAWU to help in the recruitment of the newly absorbed workers (youth sector) in the public sector to join the Young Communist League (YCL) so that they can understand and why socialism in their life time. Engels once spoken about the task of the socialists, he said, quoting the communist manifesto, was “to represent the movement of the future in the movement of the present” A L Morton & George Tate, British Labour Movement. Comrades’ shop stewards, practical observation tells us that NEHAWU is still facing a serious challenge such as the PSA counter recruitment in public sector and the probability of tempering with NEHAWU application forms is high, hence they are the majority in HR divisions. Most of these PSA members are opposing NEHAWU programmes during the day but when they arrive at home they participate in our alliance structures. In particular, the African National Congress (ANC) and that create unnecessary contradiction in our beloved movement. Another challenge is around the reluctance of top management and political heads to implement the Labour resolution. Classical example is Gauteng Government that forced to cluster the department of Health and Social Development in the year 2009 regardless of the workers objection. Surprisingly, the Premier of Gauteng in her state of the province 2012 has announce the separation of two department, that send a signal to us that workers were correct when opposing the clustering of the two department. Comrade Chairperson, the SACP Greater Tshwane would like to thank your union for the great love that it has shown through its revolutionary contribution to our socialist organization by providing the office and equipment’s to our district regardless of the internal challenge that we had faced since the establishment of the District Interim Leadership Core (DILC). But however, we managed to apply Marxist science to overcome those administrative obstacles and we are proud to announce to you that our district has more than 90 branches to date. In conclusion comrade chairperson, we wish you an immaculate congress, with a robust engagement that will deliver immeasurable pleasure to all members of NEHAWU across your regional diaspora and the resolution that will guide our socialist thinking for the better Greater Tshwane. YOU ARE A MEMBER OF NEHAWU; YOU ARE A GOOD PUBLIC SERVANT. SACP LOVES YOU. FORWARD WITH SOCIALISM FORWARD WITH MTV
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