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Zim atrocities must end - SACP
21/11/2004 22:17 - (SA)
Johannesburg - The SA Communist Party (SACP) on Sunday called for an end to security force and militia attacks on the general population of Zimbabwe.
"We are also concerned about a rushed attempt to hold elections in March 2005 without all of the necessary conditions being in place," the alliance partner with the African National Congress (ANC) and Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu), said in a statement. It was released on Sunday following a weekend meeting of its augmented central committee.
"Elections in such conditions will deepen the overall political, social and economic blockage in Zimbabwe."
The SACP also called for more effective intra-alliance information sharing, debate and discussion on Zimbabwe challenges, "in order to ensure that the African National Congress and its alliance are able to provide effective leadership to own mass base and the wider South African public". Mzansi
The SACP also said it would monitor the progress of the Mzansi National Bank, the account for the previously unbanked, which it said had seen more than 100 000 accounts opened and R35m deposited in 15 working days.
The account is a joint effort between the country's big four commercial banks - Standard Bank, First National Bank (FNB), Absa, Nedbank - and the state-owned Postbank.
"This is a resounding confirmation of the SACP's persistent but previously dismissed insistence that hundreds of thousands of South Africans who have been unbanked because of high bank charges and the general inaccessibility of the sector to working people and the poor," read the statement.
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