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*Umsebenzi Online, Volume 12, No. 11, 28 March 2013*** *_In this Issue_:* /[link]/ <http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?ID=3890> * /Address by Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr BE Nzimande MP at the ETDP Seta Conference on 25 March 2013 <http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?ID=3890#redpen>/ * /Dear comrade Jeremy <http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?ID=3890#one>/ * /Selective use of revolutionary phrases is a counter revolutionary tendency. Our revolutionary document the freedom charter, like the National Economic Plan, is not a dogma, but a guiding tool of our struggles <http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?ID=3890#two>/ * /The DA unashamedly lays false claims on the struggle history and heritage of the ANC <http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?ID=3890#three>/ * *Taking Responsibility of the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) <http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?ID=3890#four>* *[below]* *Taking Responsibility of the National Democratic Revolution (NDR)* *By Mncedisi Nobala*The SACP in the Western Cape Province will be going to the 7th provincial congress in June 2013. The 6th provincial congress was held on June 2010 with a theme "Reclaiming political power in the Western Cape to advance working class hegemony". This theme was informed by the fact that the ANC in the province lost the City of Cape Town in 2006 and the province in 2009 to the Democratic Alliance. The question people outside the province are asking is whether the policies of the DA are appealing to the people of the Western Cape than those of the ANC. My answer to this question is a definite No.
My view is that the people of the Western Cape are voicing their anger and frustration towards the ANC in the province. This anger and frustration has nothing to do with the ANC but something to do with the political infighting in the alliance and the deepening of factionalism in the province. This has led to the ANC losing elections in the Coloured Areas and decline of votes for the ANC in the African Areas. The DA has won the 2009 and 2011 elections with more than 50%. Someone outside the province might think that the DA as an organization has grown in the townships. There is no evidence to prove that the DA membership in the townships has grown and that is why it does not want to make its membership figures public.
When the SACP in the province went to the 6th provincial congress in June 2010 it was less than a year before the 2011 local government elections and it will be less than a year when it goes to the 7th provincial congress before the 2014 general national/provincial elections. It is common knowledge that the ANC led alliance lost many municipal councils in 2011 to the DA. Reclaiming political power in the Western Cape to advance working class hegemony is still relevant as we approach next year's general elections. We need to ask ourselves as the alliance in the province as to how do we reclaim political power from the DA.
My suggestions are that: 1. Let us build strong alliance structures from branch to provincial level. We must build a campaigning alliance which must go beyond alliance summits with a programme of action. It was something refreshing that the provincial ANC secretary addressed the provincial council early this month after many years of this not happening.My concern though is COSATU in the province because there seem to be a lukewarm relationship with the party and this must come to an end.
1. Let us make sure that our deployees in council account to the public by holding monthly reporting meeting with their constituencies. 2. Let us make sure that all ANC regional conferences which are due late this year or early next year are completed before November 2013 so that all energy will be directed at campaigning for the ANC victory. At least the ANC PEC is addressing this matter of early conferences. 3. Let the alliance partners rally behind the programme of action of the provincial ANC which will run up until next general elections.These are some of the things that I think if implemented can get the ANC led alliance reclaim political power in the province. Let all SACP members in their branches, district and the province build an active campaigning party as it always does in all elections. The battles for the 2014 general elections have started as it was witnessed by the turn out of the people on the Human Rights Day last week. The people came out not because of the Human Rights Day only but because they wanted to see their president which shows the hunger they have for the ANC led province.
This is very possible if we fight the tendency of the DA to bring back the divide and rule of the Coloured and African people against each other as done by the apartheid government. We will not forget what the Premier who is the DA national leader said about calling Eastern Cape children refugees. We will also not forget what she said about people from the Eastern Cape and foreign nationals during the farm workers strike last year.
Let the SACP members in the province take responsibility for the National Democratic Revolution as instructed by the 13th National Congress of the SACP. It is part of taking responsibility for the NDR if we reclaim political power in the Western Cape so that we can advance the working class hegemony. I am fully aware that wining this province does not rest only on SACP members but let us play our part as both members of the SACP and that of the ANC. Let us stop factional infights within the alliance and focus on uniting the working class. We have lost the metro, the province and many municipalities but we are still fighting for the power we do not have.
We owe it to the people of the Western Cape that we bring back the ANC led government.
* *Mncedisi Nobala *is the deputy chairperson of the ANC AB Xuma branch and deputy secretary of the Boland district (Western Cape) and he is writing in his personal capacity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- _*Communist University*_*:*_CU Downloads_: _*sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/* <https://sites.google.com/site/cu2012courses/>_
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