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SowetanLive reports that in a bid to reduce the rising numbers of unemployment and poverty, the SA Communist Party (SACP) is planning to lead a “massive campaign” on people’s right to work and food.
This was revealed by SACP’s national first deputy secretary Solly Mapaila, who addressed the SACP’s provincial congress at the East London City Hall, Eastern Cape, at the weekend. Mapaila said the state had to take responsibility for people to work. “We must force the state to take responsibility for people to have jobs. Every single South African must work. The SACP needs to lead a massive campaign on the right to work. This should be our number one priority. The right to work must go hand in hand with the right to food,” Mapaila stated. He reported that he had visited Ngqushwa and Cala areas where communities were trapped in poverty with no support from the state. He asserted that the state had a responsibility to assist the communities to produce their own food. Mapaila noted that the country’s working class had suffered major setbacks and he appealed to the working class to be united in fighting for their rights. He could not elaborate on when the campaign was likely to start.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sithandiwe Velaphi at SowetanLive
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