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Zim community in SA hails Rosettenville residents for driving out drugs dealers
09 Feb 2017 at 00:36hrs | Views
Zimbabwe Communists in South Africa have hailed the residents of Rosettenville in that country for driving away drug dealers.
Zimbabwe Communist Group and the Zimbabwe Communist League in South Africa issued a statement applauding the residents.
"Zimbabwe Communists in exile in South Africa applaud the recent actions of the people of Rosettenville when they drove out the drug dealers and human traffickers from their community," reads the statement.
"As Communists we support the most ruthless forms of action against drug dealers and human traffickers as people involved in destroying the very fabric of society and would like to remind people that in socialist-oriented countries like Cuba and China, such people, regardless of their position in society, receive the death penalty."
The group said however, the opportunist statements of Mayor Mashaba on SABC Morning Live this morning, Tuesday 7th February 2017, which attempt to blame all foreign nationals for drug dealing and human trafficking are obviously deliberately aimed at twisting the justified anger of the South African people against vicious organised crime into xenophobic hatred.
"Here we must ask: "Whose interests does Mashaba represent?" Mashaba represents the DA. True, historically the DA grew from the Progressive Party which moderately opposed apartheid, but since the end of apartheid this formation was joined by the most reactionary section of the white population interested only in preserving its privileged economic position in South Africa.
Although the DA hides behind its baas-boys like Mashaba and Maimane, events in the Cape winelands in 2012 tore away the liberal mask of the white racist DA which staunchly supported the white farm owners against the uprising by the farmworkers," reads the statement.
"These farmworkers had for some 200 years been subjected to the worst exploitation of any in South Africa; the dop system in which the workers were given free wine and brandy made them permanent alcoholics with their children born weak and deformed and alcoholics from birth. This problem is not yet over in this region."
The group said further, the COSATU and the SACP has been consistently campaigning against the casualisation of labour and labour-brokers.
"Again, it was the DA which in 2013 viciously opposed the Bill going through Parliament to ban labour brokers and managed to get that Bill watered down until when it became an Act it became meaningless in terms of protecting the security of the workers. The casualisation of labour, like the drug problem, has contributed immensely to the destabilisation of society," reads the statement.
"The DA does not only represent the interests of the racist section of the white minority of South Africa – unlike its predecessor, the National Party – it also represents the interests of foreign monopoly capital and the global neo-liberal project led by the most corrupt, violent and drug-infested country in the world – the United States of America."
Thew group said Africa needs regional and continental economic integration in order to move forward.
"The liberation of South Africa was assisted by the pan-Africanist stance of the rest of the continent; this frequently led to the impoverishment of nearby countries, in particular Mozambique, Angola and Zambia for daring to support South African freedom. South Africa has a duty to work for the upliftment of these countries. In fact, if South Africa wants to limit immigration into its territory, it can better be served through assisting the development of other African countries rather than vainly trying to build a wall across the border in the style of Donald Trump," reads the statement.
"We as Zimbabwean Communists living in South Africa are already working with the ANC-headed Alliance. We have strong links throughout the Zimbabwean community here, and are willing to work with South African Home Affairs and its Minister, Comrade Malusi Gigaba in documenting Zimbabweans as we have done in the past. Most Zimbabweans in South Africa are known to be hard-working and skilled; we are already working together with our South African brothers and sisters and are willing to start new projects which can assist in skills transfer.
Lastly we want to re-affirm our view that Mayor Mashaba and the DA are not only the enemies of foreign nationals in South Africa, they are the enemies of all South Africans and are working vigorously to deflect justified anger against the vicious world capitalist system and re-direct it to a vulnerable minority as is the norm of all fascist organisations."
Zimbabwe Communist Group and the Zimbabwe Communist League in South Africa issued a statement applauding the residents.
"Zimbabwe Communists in exile in South Africa applaud the recent actions of the people of Rosettenville when they drove out the drug dealers and human traffickers from their community," reads the statement.
"As Communists we support the most ruthless forms of action against drug dealers and human traffickers as people involved in destroying the very fabric of society and would like to remind people that in socialist-oriented countries like Cuba and China, such people, regardless of their position in society, receive the death penalty."
The group said however, the opportunist statements of Mayor Mashaba on SABC Morning Live this morning, Tuesday 7th February 2017, which attempt to blame all foreign nationals for drug dealing and human trafficking are obviously deliberately aimed at twisting the justified anger of the South African people against vicious organised crime into xenophobic hatred.
"Here we must ask: "Whose interests does Mashaba represent?" Mashaba represents the DA. True, historically the DA grew from the Progressive Party which moderately opposed apartheid, but since the end of apartheid this formation was joined by the most reactionary section of the white population interested only in preserving its privileged economic position in South Africa.
Although the DA hides behind its baas-boys like Mashaba and Maimane, events in the Cape winelands in 2012 tore away the liberal mask of the white racist DA which staunchly supported the white farm owners against the uprising by the farmworkers," reads the statement.
"These farmworkers had for some 200 years been subjected to the worst exploitation of any in South Africa; the dop system in which the workers were given free wine and brandy made them permanent alcoholics with their children born weak and deformed and alcoholics from birth. This problem is not yet over in this region."
The group said further, the COSATU and the SACP has been consistently campaigning against the casualisation of labour and labour-brokers.
"Again, it was the DA which in 2013 viciously opposed the Bill going through Parliament to ban labour brokers and managed to get that Bill watered down until when it became an Act it became meaningless in terms of protecting the security of the workers. The casualisation of labour, like the drug problem, has contributed immensely to the destabilisation of society," reads the statement.
"The DA does not only represent the interests of the racist section of the white minority of South Africa – unlike its predecessor, the National Party – it also represents the interests of foreign monopoly capital and the global neo-liberal project led by the most corrupt, violent and drug-infested country in the world – the United States of America."
Thew group said Africa needs regional and continental economic integration in order to move forward.
"The liberation of South Africa was assisted by the pan-Africanist stance of the rest of the continent; this frequently led to the impoverishment of nearby countries, in particular Mozambique, Angola and Zambia for daring to support South African freedom. South Africa has a duty to work for the upliftment of these countries. In fact, if South Africa wants to limit immigration into its territory, it can better be served through assisting the development of other African countries rather than vainly trying to build a wall across the border in the style of Donald Trump," reads the statement.
"We as Zimbabwean Communists living in South Africa are already working with the ANC-headed Alliance. We have strong links throughout the Zimbabwean community here, and are willing to work with South African Home Affairs and its Minister, Comrade Malusi Gigaba in documenting Zimbabweans as we have done in the past. Most Zimbabweans in South Africa are known to be hard-working and skilled; we are already working together with our South African brothers and sisters and are willing to start new projects which can assist in skills transfer.
Lastly we want to re-affirm our view that Mayor Mashaba and the DA are not only the enemies of foreign nationals in South Africa, they are the enemies of all South Africans and are working vigorously to deflect justified anger against the vicious world capitalist system and re-direct it to a vulnerable minority as is the norm of all fascist organisations."
Source - Byo24News
