SACPblackStar.jpg South African Communist Party Press Statement, 7 February 2016 SACP supports engagement The SACP supports meaningful, consensus-seeking engagement between the government and labour to resolve the problem of the new tax laws and put in place comprehensive social security The South African Communist Party has noted and welcomes President Jacob Zuma's assignment, as announced on Friday, 5 February, of the Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Comrade Jeff Radebe to assist the National Treasury and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the discussions relating to the Tax Administration Amendment Act. The Act was signed into law without comprehensive social security, while curtailing workers' provident fund lump sums withdrawals to one-third and restricting the remaining two-thirds to retirement annuity. The SACP expressed serious concern about this and called on the government to ensure meaningful, consensus-seeking engagement with labour and put in place a process to establish comprehensive social security. The SACP therefore also welcomes the appointment by the President of an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Comprehensive Social Security with a view to addressing existing gaps and weaknesses and ensuring the provision of comprehensive social security. The SACP would like to emphasise the necessity and importance for intensifying the ongoing working-class mobilisation and activism to shape the outcomes of both these processes. The SACP will continue to support workers in this and the wider struggle for economic emancipation. History has proven that without advancing its own interests there will be no one to do so for and on behalf of the working class!! The SACP also calls on all those responsible for, to invest workers funds appropriately and in a manner that supports social security and transformation with focus on upgrading working class areas including rural development. The SACP will in this regard continue intensifying its Financial Sector Transformation Campaign and strengthen its efforts to ensure that workers have an ultimate say over their hard-earned resources and how they are invested. Issued by the SACP Contact: Alex Mashilo, National Spokesperson, 082 920 0308 -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
