SACP urges South Africans to register for local elections

The South African Communist Party (SACP) has urged South Africans who are eligible to vote in the coming local elections to ensure that they register this weekend‚ saying that much work still has to be done to transform the country.

“Together‚ under the leadership of the ANC-led government we have achieved massive social advances since we dislodged the apartheid regime in 1994 and guaranteed human rights in our constitution as a country.

“Let us unite and work together to upgrade our country’s democratic transformation and place it on to a second‚ more radical phase of our transition towards the achievement of a fully non-racial‚ non-sexist‚ democratic and prosperous South Africa‚” SACP said.

“Despite the achievements we have made as a country since 1994‚ there is still more work that needs to be done to undo the damage and setbacks caused by centuries- and decades-long of colonial dispossession and apartheid oppression based on racist capitalist exploitation‚” the party added.

It said this was not a time to weaken unity but rather a time to strengthen it.

“The tripartite alliance remains the most relevant organisational formation to lead our society towards the realisation of the goals of the Freedom Charter.

“The SACP says: Let us unite to uproot racist interests in our country‚ solve the challenges of inequality‚ unemployment and poverty. Together we will succeed.”