> The DA unashamedly lays false claims on the struggle history and heritage of > the ANC > > The recent decision by the DA to declare this year the Nelson Mandela year > smacks of hypocrisy. The DA (through its predecessor the Democratic Party) > wants to associate itself with the legacy of Nelson Mandela and therefore lay > claim to the history of our struggle over many years to defeat apartheid > which they supported. This is purely naked opportunism! The DA and its > predecessors have never objected when Mandela was declared a terrorist and > incarcerated to Robben Island. > > The DA never objected to the banning of the National Liberation Movements and > now in peace times they want to honour these heroes and heroines who were > brutally murdered, hanged, jailed and exiled by a regime they supported and > benefited from its policies. > > They collaborated, supported and benefited from the unjust laws, policies and > opportunities afforded by the racist and fascist apartheid regime and now > wants to sooth its conscience. They are haunted by their guilty conscience. > > The DA's anti-transformation agenda does not favor the Black majority > > The DA wants people to forget its contributory role in oppressing the Black > majority. Their pretenses are betrayed by their policies which continue to > preserve and protect the same privileges they enjoyed since the introduction > of colonial and apartheid regimes in this country. The DA opposes Affirmative > Action, Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment and Land Reform. > > Their opposition to these progressive policies mean that the DA wants the > status quo to remain unchanged. The DA is a racist organization with a racist > agenda which favors the minority bourgeoisie white middle class interests. > The DA, through its deceitful public relations stunt, on Human Rights day > launched its renaming exercise claiming to pursue "efforts to build an > inclusive city that promotes reconciliation and redress". This is a complete > nonsense! They believe the Nazi dictum that "repeating a lie often enough > makes it truth". As the SACP, we will not stop exposing these falsehoods. > > Their lies about commitment to inclusivity, reconciliation and redress are > contradicted by their opposition to implementation of Affirmative Action > policies and Land Restitution to redress imbalances of the past. This exposes > their dishonesty and hypocrisy. The City of Cape Town makes no attempts at > inclusivity in practise as it continues to invest inordinate proportion of > public funds towards White middle class suburbia. It's development paradigm > continues to reinforce apartheid spatial distortion for instance moving > people to concentration camp-like settlements such as Blikisdorp. > > Once again the DA exposes its attitude towards the poor Black majority on a > daily basis through its policy priorities and expenditure patterns. for > example the choice to spend millions, in the interest of maintaining the > interests of bourgeois white middle class, on the Bus Rapid Transit road > infrastructure and bus Service (my city) from Table View to Cape Town while > thousands of residents from Khayelitsha, Mitchells' Plein, Nyanga, Gugulethu, > Langa, Bishop Lavis, Lavender Hill etc desperately need safe and reliable > public transport. These working class communities were located far from > economic and employment opportunities through the segregationist apartheid > spatial distortion and their interests continue to be marginalized by the DA. > Working class communities still remain excluded from the economic > opportunities under the DA. > > The renaming of streets after stalwarts of the anti-apartheid struggle > > The DA started exposing its inherent dishonesty and hypocrisy when it > opportunistically declared that it has adopted the freedom charter before the > 2009 elections many years after the freedom charter was adopted by the real > Congress of the People in Kliptown. Whilst revolutionaries risked and > sacrificed their lives in order to realize the vision of the freedom charter > the DA was enjoying luxuries and privileges afforded by the apartheid regime > which they still protect to date. > > Now the DA under Zille wants to appropriate and manipulate the legacy of the > fallen heroes and heroins of the liberation struggle, for political gain. > This shows the moral bankruptcy of the Helen Zille. In fact it is criminal to > appropriate products of the ANC without consent. The SACP rejects this > calculated political ploy to clear the guilty conscience of the DA. > > The renaming of the streets after anti-apartheid struggle heroes such as > Govan Mbeki, Walter Sisulu, Robert Sobukwe, Dulcy Septmber Steve Biko and > Imam Haron among others seeks to steal their legacy and sacrifices for > political mileage. The DA has opportunistically and carefully selected minor > streets and avoided main important places of historical signicance and > streets in the city centre such as Adderley, Strand and Plein streets. The DA > also reduces African leaders such as Steve Biko as leaders of Africans only, > the case in point is renaming NY1 in Gugulethu as Steve Biko. They do all > this knowing that they will soon lose power and want to make it difficult for > the ANC to change it. A careful look at the DA's record shows that they > opposed name changes in Tshwane, eThekwini and many other areas. > > If the DA is genuine it must prove itself and support the SACP's campaign to > rename the Cape Town International Airport after Chris Hani. Failure to do so > will confirm out belief that this renaming has no significance other than > merely to insult our heroes in order to gain political support. > > Contact: > Khaya Magaxa > SACP Western Cape Provincial Secretary > Mobile: 0837210221 > E-mail: [email protected] > > OR > > Sonwabile Ngxiza > SACP Western Cape Media Liaison > Mobile: 0714511329 > E-mail: [email protected] > > > Sent from my iPad > > > > Sent from my iPad
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