South African Communist Party Eastern Cape, 14 July 2015 Press statement: "Mbuyiselo Ngwenda remains a true embodiment of the alliance" The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Eastern Cape wishes to express its great appreciation of the Moses Kotane Award that has been posthumously conferred to Mbuyiselo Ngwenda by the SACP in our 3rd Special National Congress. The award was received on behalf of Mbuyiselo Ngwenda by his two children, Mbali and Naledi Ngwenda (photo attached). Comrade Mbuyiselo Ngwenda was SACP Central Committee (CC) member and the General Secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA). He is from the Eastern Cape in the Port Elizabeth, a region which is named after him in the SACP (Mbuyiselo Ngwenda District). We are particularly pleased that he is honoured during the time when the workers of South Africa and their giant federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) are confronted with challenges. He served both the organised workers and the working class with diligence throughout his life of activism. He always understood a dialectical link between a trade union, union federation and the vanguard party of the working class. Mbuyiselo Ngwenda we know would have never turned his back on the movement during these trying times in the federation, during the neo-liberal offensive against our movement, during the imperialist onslaught on all the progressive international forces. He would have understood that at the centre of this counter-revolutionary forces it's the two extremes, the extreme right wing and the ultra-left workerist demagogues. He would have remained true to the founding principles of COSATU: One Industry, One union; One Country, One Federation; An injury to all is an injury to all. It is in this context that we are calling upon the workers to emulate Mbuyiselo Ngwenda by acting in defence of the federation and the alliance and that includes defending the constitution and the founding principles of COSATU. We further call upon the workers to be vigilant and distinguish between the genuine revolutionaries and the tenderpreneurs who masquerade as their servants. In the name of Mbuyiselo Ngwenda workers must never be fooled by their revolutionary rhetoric. We will always remember him as the true hero of our people, a communist intellectual who contributed immensely on the working class struggles. We wish to convey our greatest appreciation to the SACP 3rd Special National Congress for honouring this hero of our people who contributed immensely in the working class struggles. As the SACP in the Eastern Cape in honour of Mbuyiselo Ngwenda, we commit ourselves to work very hard with all the progressive forces to defend the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality in the 2016 Local Government Elections. Issued by the SACP Eastern Cape. Contact: Siyabonga Mdodi SACP Provincial Spokesperson Mobile: +2783 358 8070 Office: +2740 635 1046/42 Fax: +2786 286 1281 Website: <http://www.sacp.org.za> www.sacp.org.za Facebook: SACP Eastern Cape >From Left: Naledi Ngwenda, Blade Nzimande - SACP GS and Mbali Ngwenda -- -- 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/d/optout.
