DEAR Editor,-
I refer to the letter ‘Can anyone clarify what is happening?’ (Herald, May 23) which highlights his poor understanding of ‘Red’s’ dialectics, the pompous posture of the reverend, the renegade’s ineptitude of former cadres of our movement and depraved municipal workers.
In 1929, the SACP resolved to form an alliance with the ANC, as the best-placed organisation to lead a national liberation movement, to which we are committed. We evolved dual political membership through a principled loyalty to the SACP and all other political progressive formations in which we served, whether the ANC, trade unions or, of late, our democratic state.
Our medium-term vision says all key sites of power should be occupied by communists – be it the community, workplace, international, environmental, the state, and the battle of ideas and economy.
The SACP is an independent party, but it is a party of governance, as well as a political party for the working class and therefore cannot locate itself outside the state. Constitution is not a dogma, but amongst others, an instrument for administrative purposes that must be tweaked now and again to be in line with a given concrete situation, or respond to the demands of a given situation.
It must be changed and adjusted in the same way as that of forms and methods of class struggle. Any constitution, as seen by the SACP, is not and must not be something cast in iron and must remain untouched irrespective of ever-changing revolutionary situations.
The writer mentioned the retired archbishop Desmond Tutu as a repository of wisdom and a paragon of virtue, but he does not speak of truth in power, but rather talks politics to gain power. Mr Shinga extols the outrageous behaviour of the renegade, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, who forgot the Marxist-Leninist teachings that define being revolutionary as not necessarily inherent or a permanent feature.
That is the reason why, from time to time, revolutionary movements must subject members to vigorous political educational classes, irrespective of the position they hold, in order to cultivate their thinking capability for ‘augmentation’ purposes. The SACP and SAMWU have an enormous responsibility to defeat officials’ slush ‘tenderpreneurs’ within Ugu in particular, and other municipalities.
Ugu has protracted financial woes whilst two or three officials there are filthy rich and strategically deployed at supply chain sections and heads of special projects. They must explain how it is possible to be in the black when the employer is bleeding money left, right and centre. (R50m as an unauthorised expenditure – source: Auditor-General report).
MJEQEZI
SACP Civic Centre Branch
