Revolutionary greetings, Indeed the establishment of the state-owned pharmaceutical company is a good step in the right direction. However, we need to ensure that the company does not lose sight of its revolutionary mandate when directors execute the main object of the business, in terms of redirecting its surplus or profit towards creating the skill base for the economy and contribute towards our free education goal, including a decent healthcare for all through the proposed National Health Insurance. However, we need to think about it carefully - there is no need to rush if the state is not ready. The establishment may require a five-year capital injection to keep the company afloat before it can generate any revenue which will result in its future success. In a nutshell, we need to create a progressive company not a loss-making entity which will then depend on the state bailout for survival. Hence, it's important to ensure that our fundamentals are right from the onset. Similar approach should be employed in the mooted establishment of a state mining company to take care of the nationalisation programme. I remain, Morgan Phaahla
"Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology." - Joe Slovo --- On Fri, 7/22/11, Malekate Maditsi <[email protected]> wrote: From: Malekate Maditsi <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] NUMSA WELCOMES THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE-OWNED PHAMARCEUTICAL COMPANY To: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 2:47 AM Amandla!, Cde Castro NUMSA is & will remain a trusted & reliable force for a socialist future. We say, NUMSA continue to shine & inspire other affiliates to shine & make the dream of Cde Chris & Slovo reality today.Cde Castro with great deal of interests can we be updated on progress made with regard to resolutions of NUMSA-SACP bilateral. We are waiting impatiently for the wheels to start turning, we are ready not only to climb but to add value to motion of it. We are thirsty, we have been waiting for too long, we are resolute, we want to defeat capitalism not only white capitalism but even one from our file & rank. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Castro Ngobese <[email protected]> wrote: NUMSA WELCOMES THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE-OWNED PHAMARCEUTICAL COMPANY 21 July 2011 The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) welcomes and supports the decision taken by our liberation movement, the ANC, to establish a State-owned pharmaceutical company. This decision by the ANC is a decisive victory in our calls for the state to play an interventionist role in the economy in the interest of the working class and the poor. The establishment of the State-owned pharmaceutical company is going to dislodge and reverse the semi-imperialist dominance of private capital in the pharmaceutical industry geared towards meetings the needs of our people, as opposed to private accumulation by the pharmaceutical oligarchy. This State-owned company is a victory for the working class which has been subjected to exorbitant medication cost by the profits imbedded pharmaceutical companies. This decision by the ANC of Chris Hani and Lillian Ngoyi should be defended by the working class and the poor. The working class and the poor should be on guard and refute any spurious utterances against the establishment of this state-owned pharmaceutical company by the undemocratic and unelected spokesperson of private capital located in high offices pharmaceutical conglomerates. The State-owned pharmaceutical company is going to solidify governments’ efforts of running a preventative health scheme as envisaged in the National Health Insurance (NHI), as resolved by the congress of the people in 1955. In a class and divided society like South Africa, basic needs, medication should not be left in the hands of the market. The state should be in the forefront of providing these medications at affordable cost. The public provision of this basic social service will contribute in the building of our country’s productive capacity which will lead to the realisation of full employment in line with COSATU’s New Growth Path for Full Employment. As NUMSA, through our federation, COSATU, a reliable and trusted ally of the ANC, to call a focus discussion to give class content and substance on the pharmaceutical company, including the development of a shared pharmaceutical strategy, as a product of the Alliance, as opposed to Harvard University inclined bureaucrats or consultants. We re-affirm our position for the re-nationalisation of ArcelorMittal to be in the hands of state on behalf of our people as encapsulated in the Freedom Charter. The re-nationalisation of ArcelorMittal will assist the State to drive industrial development and diversification in order to address the triple-crisis of unemployment, poverty and deepening inequalities mostly affecting the working class and the poor. 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