Saturday, June 15, 2019

SACP Gauteng Welcomes the Appointment of Comrade Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko as First African Woman to be Appointed MEC of Finance
3 June 2019

The South African Communist Party (SACP) in Gauteng Province welcomes and appreciates the appointment of comrade Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko as the first African woman to be MEC of Finance in our province. We believe comrade Nomatu unleashes a wave of hope that Black and African women can lead and play a critical role in the Department that is entrusted with people’s finances and state procurement, to improve the living conditions of the working class.

We further believe that the appointment of comrade Nomantu deals a decisive blow to patriarchy and male domination that has been a persistent feature of the provincial Department of Finance and Treasury. We are confident that comrade Nomantu will make a sterling contribution to the fight against state capture, corruption and looting of public resources, whilst ensuring that government resources are aligned to the Election Manifesto.

We welcome the appointment of all Members of the Executive Council (MEC’s) that followed an extensive process of consultation with Alliance partners. We wish to reiterate and affirm our longstanding profound principle that organs of the state in the province must serve the working class and poor, especially in townships and informal settlement.

We believe that given the interface of the world crisis of capitalism and the persisting legacy of Colonialism of a Special Type (CST) which continues to reproduce poverty, unemployment and inequalities, their severe impact is felt even more in our province. Our province has the highest level capitalist mode of production, a fast growing population, working class and the poor. It is in this context therefore, that we will continue to work and campaign for a government that foregrounds its work in townships and informal settlements.

We will now work even harder to make our contribution to the strategic and tactical approaches to growing the economy in our province in line with the ANC election manifesto to grow South Africa, which is consistent with the SACP election principle of Turning-around our country. We believe that both these two profound clarion calls constitute the same dialectic of eradicating poverty, inequalities and unemployment. We will intensify the fight against corporate capture of the state, corruption and looting. We will also build the Party in both quality and quantity as we move towards the centenary of the SACP.

Issued by the SACP Gauteng Province

Contact:

Jacob Mamabolo – SACP Gauteng Provincial Secretary
Mobile: 082 884 1868

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