SACPblackStar.jpg
Press Alert, 5 January 2013 19th Anniversary Commemoration of the passing away of Joe Slovo The SACP will on Monday, 6 January 2014, be commemorating the 19th anniversary of the passing away of comrade Joe Slovo. At the time of his death, Slovo was SACP National Chairperson and Politburo Member, as well as Member of the African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee and National Working Committee. A communist cadre who believed the struggle for complete freedom through the national democratic revolution and socialism took place in multiple fronts and had to be waged in all strategic centres of power, including the state, Slovo was also the Minister of Housing in the Government of National Unity. As a worker, Slovo joined the National Union of Distributive Workers and became one of its Shop Stewards, leading strikes. He joined the Communist Party in 1942, and was also a founder member of the Congress of Democrats, which he represented in the National Consultative Committee of the Congress Alliance that drew up the Freedom Charter. He was one of our finest revolutionaries who were arrested and detained during the notorious Treason Trial of 1956, and charges against him were dropped in 1958. A revolutionary to the core, Slovo became one of the leaders of the people's liberation army, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), in 1961. Slovo played one of the crucial roles in the negotiations that contributed to the birth of democracy in South Africa after the unbanning of political parties, release of political prisoners and return from exile in 1990. Details of the commemoration are as follows: . Date: 6 January 2014 (Monday) . Time: 9h00 - 13h00 . Venue: Avalon Cemetery, Soweto . Speakers: o SACP National Chairperson Comrade Senzeni Zokwana o Young Communist League of SA National Secretary Comrade Buti Manamela o leaders from Alliance partners the African National Congress and Congress of South African Trade Unions The media is cordially invited to attend and report. Issued by the SACP Alex Mashilo - Spokesperson Mobile: 082 9200 308 Email: [email protected] -- -- 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.
<<image001.jpg>>
