SACP vows to restore voices of the poor
South African Communist Party (SACP) General Secretary Solly Mapaila says the party is contesting the up-coming local government elections to bring back the forgotten voices of the poor.
Mapaila was addressing the Red October Siyaqoba Rally in Thulamahashe, Bushbuckridge, in Mpumalanga. He says they intend to address service delivery concerns raised in different municipalities.
PICTURES | The South African Communist Party (SACP) is hosting its Red October Siyaqoba Rally in Thulamahashe in the Bushbuckridge Local Municipality, Mpumalanga. This year’s Red October is linked to the Local Government Election campaign which the party will be contesting. The SACP took the resolution to contest the local government elections independently during its 5th National Congress held in December 2024. A decision that resulted into a tense relationship between the party and its alliance partner, the African National Congress. SACP’s General Secretary Solly Mapaila is expected deliver the keynote address.
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“We have entered the terrain on behalf of the people, the poor, the working class, whose voice has been dipped, has been undermined. But we are bringing that voice much stronger to the local councils to prioritise their programmes to build people’s power where people live and make sure that we create the right to work. We resuscitate that, a forgotten aspects of the people’s wishes the freedom charter. We are rebuilding that to make sure that people have access basic service water and electricity,” he says.
