Picture: (Northern Cape MEC for Agriculture, Norman Shushu)

BY OBAKENG MAJE
THE SACP has called for unity among its rank and file so that factional tendencies could be defeated.

This was said during a fund-raising gala dinner held in Hartswater, near Taung on Saturday.

Held under the theme, Socialism in our lifetime, the gathering attracted leaders like Northern Cape MEC for Agriculture, Norman Shushu and several ANC and other alliance members.

Shushu said the dinner was organised to raise funds and bring SACP members together.

“We see factionalism and divisions within the ANC and as alliance partners, we are very concerned with the state of affairs in the party. ANC is losing mostly middle class supporters and we want to find answers as to why.

“The SACP still pledges its support to the ANC and would like to inform members of the ruling party to desist from tendencies of supporting individuals and to refrain from abusing their positions for personal gain because they were elected by the people,” Shushu said.

The SACP leader called on the youth to register cooperatives so that they can be able to fight poverty and unemployment.

“We would like to inform the youth not to become tenderpreneurs, but become entrepreneurs so that they can help government to alleviate poverty and create jobs,” he said.

ANC regional secretary Webster Dichaba said the dominant capitalist economy continues to compromise the plans the ruling party has for young people.

“As we celebrate the 39th anniversary of the Youth Month, we do so with quantitative and qualitative gains to show for the youth of our country,”

According to Mojaki Legobane, an SACP member from Jan Kempdorp: “The dominant capitalist economy undermines the blood that was shed in 1976 for the equal liberation of the youth of today in economic, social and political terms,”
-TDN
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