Western Cape SACP condemns violence Law enforcement agencies must probe the dangerous acts and take immediate action Nadine Ford-Kritzinger, The New Age, Johannesburg, 15 April 2016 The Western Cape provincial branch of the South African Communist Party (SACP) yesterday condemned the ongoing damaging of property to the homes of councillors in the province. They called on law enforcement agencies to probe the matter and to take immediate action. The concern raised by the SACP followed the attack on councillor Mzuzile Mpondwana of Ward 35, who recently became another victim of violent protesters. The councillor's house was torched and reduced to ashes. A few weeks ago councillor Themba Honono from Ward 108, also suffered the same violent fate and councillor Lubabalo Makeleni from Du Noon was nearly subjected to the same unfortunate act. Reckless, dangerous The SACP said: "These are truly reckless and dangerous acts that threaten peace and stability in working class communities. "The targeting of personal property through violent political and service delivery demonstrations works against any dispute or challenge facing communities. "The SACP urges restraint and calm. Challenges must be understood in the broader political and governance context of the city of Cape Town and the Western Cape." The SACP urged all community members involved in these violent acts to lodge their disputes within the correct parameters of the law and to desist from using genuine social challenges in poor communities for political gain. It also lashed out at the ruling provincial party, the DA, and accused it of fuelling violent protests by neglecting poorer communities in the province. "As a result, with skewed resources allocated to our townships, the DA-led city of Cape Town has sat back and taken political advantage of this dangerous situation. "It is against this background that the SACP in the province calls for law enforcement to take immediate action. Careerists "We further call upon members of society not to be used and manipulated by political and community careerists who suddenly have an interest in becoming service delivery protest leaders. "There is no doubt that our communities face many challenges, high levels of unemployment, poverty and racialised inequality all add fuel to the fire in these instances, as well as within the context of an anti-poor DA government. "We must, however, be clear that the processes of nominating council candidates bring all sorts of characters out of the woodwork." [email protected] From: http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/15042016/epaperpdf/6.pdf -- -- 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.
