Nzimande: From the very beginning the Communist Party was non-racial in practice. In fact, until the late 1940s and a short-lived Liberal Party, the Communist Party was the only political formation in South Africa with an active, non-racial membership. #SACP100
Nzimande: The approach to non-racialism was also evident in the Communist-led formation of the Federation of South African Women which mobilised women across class and racial groups to stand firm in their masses in the face of apartheid pass laws and repression. #SACP100
Nzimande: The SACP’s non-racial legacy was advanced by the Freedom Charter’s clarion call that South Africa belongs to all who live in it. It was enshrined in our 1996 democratic Constitution. Let us defend this legacy with as much determination as ever before. #SACP100
Tragically, the roll-call of Party martyrs continues beyond the democratic breakthrough (1994). It's from the platform of this history, this 100-year legacy of theory and struggle that we must approach our own immediate reality, including the most recent events of July. #SACP100
Nzimande: Throughout one hundred years of Communist struggle, our Party cadres have been first in sacrifice. We number thousands of martyrs. Chris Hani, Party general secretary, assassinated 10 April 1993. #SACP100
Nzimande: “resolutionaries” have, unfortunately, so vulgarised the words “radical economic transformation” that, although we do need economic transformation that is radical, it would be best to find different terminology. #SACP100
But we reserve the right to be critical, & indeed we are critical, especially of the persisting timidity in breaking the shackles of a self-imposed, neo-liberal austerity, which deepens poverty, inequality, unemployment, and community safety. #SACP100
Nzimande: We pledge our solidarity with the people of Swaziland struggling for democracy and socialism. The SACP calls for the unconditional release of political prisoners and unbanning of political parties in Swaziland. #SACP100
Nzimande: We pledge our solidarity with the people of Western Sahara & Palestine against occupation of their lands by Morocco & apartheid Israeli regime, respectively. SACP reiterates its call for Morocco & Israel to immediately unconditionally end the occupation. #SACP100
SACP pledges its unwavering solidarity with the people of Cuba and their government against United States driven imperialist aggression and regime change machination. SACP strongly condemns additional sanctions imposed on Cuba by the US’s Joe Biden administration. #SACP100
Besides its illegal blockade, the United States is still illegally occupying the Cuban territory of Guantanamo Bay.
The United States must unconditionally end both the blockade against Cuba and the occupation of Guantanamo Bay with immediate effect. #SACP100
A total of 184 countries voted in favour of the resolution, and of all countries in the world only the apartheid Israeli regime stood with the imperialist United States in the minority. #SACP100
This year, for the 29th consecutive time since 1992, the United Nations General Assembly strongly condemned the illegal blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba and called upon the United States to lift the criminal blockade. #SACP100