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Sep 2020

About the NDR

The main aims of the national democratic revolution are outlined in the Freedom Charter, which has also been endorsed by the mass democratic movement representing millions of our struggling people. South African Communists consider that the achievement of the aims of the Charter will answer the pressing and immediate needs of the people and lay the indispensable basis for the...

Aug 2020

SACP MOSES MABHIDA PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE STATEMENT ON DECISIONS OF THE SPECIAL PEC HELD ON 23 AUGUST 2020

25 August 2020; 10h00 The South African Communist Party in Moses Mabhida (KZN) held its Special Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) on Sunday 23 August 2020. The Special PEC was extended to all office bearers of the districts in the province of KwaZulu Natal. The Special PEC was called amid recent developments taking place in the ruling party the ANC and in...

Government can take your home, farm, or business premises under Constitutional Amendment Bill

Effective land reform is still required, but the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill of 2019 (the Draft Bill) will needlessly undermine the property rights of all South Africans: from the 1 million whites with home ownership to the 8.5 million black, ‘coloured’ and Indian families who own houses too. It will also hurt the 17.5m black people with customary plots,...

The ANC’s plan to use South African pensions

The ANC’s Economic Transformation Committee has published a new proposal document which includes planned changes to how pension funds will work in South Africa. The document indicates that the use of pension funds will be key to helping the government address funding shortfalls in areas such as infrastructure development and energy production. To achieve this, the ANC proposes changing regulation 28 of...

ANC, EFF push for unconstitutional postponement of election

Threatened by a voter backlash to the catastrophic impact of the coronavirus lockdown in the 2021 local elections, the African National Congress (ANC) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are working together to undermine the Constitution and postpone the elections – not for a month or two, but for three years.

Jul 2020