SACP Western Cape Press Statement 22 February 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Zille Delivers an Empty State of the Province Address The SACP notes the Western Cape State of the Province Address delivered by the premier today. We were treated to empty rhetoric which is blind to, and distorts the real conditions of the poor in the townships, informal settlements and rural parts of the Western Cape. The address was pro-middle class! Business interests are a prominent and common tread throughout the speech. This is not surprising to us as the DA advances and protects the interests of the rich at the expense of the poor majority. Zille unashamedly believes that R70 per day is more than enough for poor farm workers in De Dorns in the Hex River valley. Zille ignores the reality that the Western Cape is the most unequal society with the high levels of unemployment in the country. Her perverted philosophy of “better together” is ignorant of the daily misery of the Black majority as victims of racism which she has reintroduced in the Western Cape. As the SACP, we are not surprised but disappointed about Zille’s dishonesty about the service delivery failures of her administration. During the DA’s term of office there are rising levels of frustration amongst the working class majority and huge number of service delivery protests attest to the colossal failure of DA administration. Communities in Phillipi, Khayelitsha, Mitchell’s Plain and Grabouw have been protesting against poor service delivery including water, sanitation, access to education and housing for a long time. Zille has failed dismally to meet the developmental needs of the working class particularly housing. The SACP is not surprised that Zille failed to even mention the victims of fire disaster in Khayelitsha who were left homeless and destitute. The majority of the working class is confined to shacks which are prone to floods and fire disasters and yet insults them by ignoring their plight. The Premier proudly announces that her government has a partnership with Clicks clinic where patients can access vaccines and contraceptives BUT fails to answer the fundamental question about how many Clicks clinics exist in the Black townships, informal settlements and rural areas. This is a clear bias in favour of the elite and affluent middle class of Rondebosch, Claremont etc. Zille’s speech was also marked by emphasis that in-migration is a source of the problems in the Western Cape. Zille still lives in the apartheid order where there were Group Areas legislation and forced removals. The DA must accept that the current problems are not as a result of freedom of movement by citizens of this country but are a direct result of her inability to plan despite clear indications of patterns of population growth. Zille, yet again, openly exposed her disregard for the Constitution. She wants to create the republic of the Western Cape by taking over policing functions including the judiciary. As the SACP we reject the DA sponsored Community Safety Bill and we applaud the Minister of Police for opposing Zille’s commissions of enquiry as she does not have the competent authority to do so. Contact Cde. Khaya Magaxa – Provincial Secretary 0837210221 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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