The SACP in the Western Cape wholeheartedly concurs with the sentiments expressed by the ANC president when he quotes Former President Mandela in ANC Today Volume 8, No. 41 • 17—23 October 2008 as saying;
"In Congress there are still many shady characters, political clowns, place-seekers, saboteurs, provocateurs, informers and policemen who masquerade as progressives but who are in fact the bitterest enemies of our organisation. Outside appearances are highly deceptive and we cannot classify these men by looking at their faces or by listening to their sweet tongues or their vehement speeches demanding immediate action. The friends of the people are distinguishable by the ready and disciplined manner in which they rally behind their organisation and their readiness to sacrifice when the preservation of the organisation has become a matter of life and death. Similarly, enemies and shady characters are detected by the extent to which they consistently attempt to wreck the organisation by creating fratricidal strife, disseminating confusion and undermining and even opposing important plans of action to vitalize the organisation".
Nelson Mandela during a Presidential address to the Transvaal ANC congress in 1953 entitled: No Easy Walk to Freedom".
The SACP regards the opportunistic behaviour of ANC members, ANC councilors, ANC MP`s, ANC MPL`s and ANC Cabinet members using the ANC`s resources to poach ANC membership for the new Black DA of Lekota and Shilowa as counter revolutionary and criminal.
Within our ranks we have charlatans who must be regarded as the enemy of our people in the National Democratic Revolution. All of a sudden the Freedom Charter has become the rallying cry of the latter day ANC DISSIDENTS …BUT… we must ask the question as to where were these shady characters when the working class demanded the fullest and most resolute implementation of the Freedom Charter which amongst other things declares that "The people shall share in the country`s wealth".
Western Cape challenges of division and dissent:
The SACP in the Western Cape are abundantly clear and conscious of the fact that the ANC confronts serious challenges. We are clear and mindful of the fact that the 1996 class project entrenched itself in the Western Cape within the echelons of provincial ANC government including the ANC as an organisation. For the 196 class project to continue to function it has to create divisions and factions in the organisation since it cannot survive without these divisions.
The dissidents have made it clear that it cannot tolerate the Sacp and Cosatu`s influence in the Alliance. In the Western Cape we have experienced a consistent undermining of the Sacp and Cosatu for more than a decade. There were consistent efforts to push the Alliance partners to leave the ANC something which we refused to do because ANC was painstakingly built into a revolutionary liberation movement with the most energetic participation of trade unionist and communists. No one to the ultra right or ultra left will succeed in terminating the revolutionary tripartite alliance unless we come to that conclusion ourselves.
The pre & post ANC Western Cape Conference factional discord:
Before and after the ANC Western Cape conference our province witnessed the deep seated divisions which are located within the paradigm of the 1996 class project in both their approach and behaviour.
The Sacp in the province understand and sympathize with some of the genuine grievances and concerns of different comrades. However we are of the firm view that such grievances and organisational problems can only be dealt with inside the structures of the ANC and not in any Convention which seeks to liquidate the ANC and revolutionary alliance.
History has repeatedly shown that no individual is bigger than the organisation. No individual interest will ever defeat the National Democratic Revolution.
Lessons must be learn from how the masses and liberation movement defeated renegades such as Unita, Renamo and other counter revolutionary forces on the Africa continent.
For further information contact Khaya Magaxa Sacp Western Cape Provincial Secretary on 083 7210221