SACP
*31 October 2012*** *SACP Statement on the Census Report 2011*The SACP has noted and welcomes the release of the CENSUS report 2011 handed over to the President of the Republic on Tuesday this week. We congratulate the Statistician General and his team for successfully concluding the report and extend a word of appreciation to all those South Africans who participated in the counting process.
The SACP will study the report in depth to understand what exactly it means for our organisational activities and structures. On the whole the report paints a picture of progress in some areas and stubborn structural constraints in others, especially unemployment, poverty and inequality.
The SACP particularly welcomes the significant progress and continuing advances made by the ANC-led government over the past decade. This reaffirms our belief that the ANC is the only political organisation best capable to lead this country and take it to greater heights.
Despite these advances, the census results vindicates the some key observations and conclusions that the SACP has been about the challenges facing our country. For the SACP whatever advances we have made will always be vulnerable to reversals unless we transform the current, semi-colonial growth path. The SACP will continue to focus its energies on the mobilization of the working class to radically transform our current trajectory to that which must roll back the capitalist market and its logic. We need an economy that will prioritize tackling the still racialised poverty, unemployment and inequality in our society.
The SACP is firmly of the view that accelerated measures to implement the five priorities of our movement is central to the further transformation of our country, including increased focus on rural development. We will escalate our campaign for the transformation of the financial sector so that its resources are redirected away from financing consumption, but to prioritise investment into the productive economy.
The report also points to the need to focus most of our interventions to address the many challenges facing our youth, which now constitutes the vast majority in our population. In this regard education, skills development programmes and job creation initiatives are critical. The SACP calls on relevant government agencies and departments to internalize this reality and move with haste to fast track youth targeted initiatives. Similarly we hope budgeting in all government departments will prioritise youth programmes.
We also wish to take this opportunity to congratulate Cde Trevor Manuel and the Statistician General for a job well done.
***** **Issued by the SACP****** ****** **_Contact_**:****** **Malesela Maleka****** **SACP Spokesperson -- 082 226 1802 ** ****** ****** *** -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
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