#NaspersMonopolyMustFall: SACP

28 November 2015 - 10:32 By TMG Digital

The South African Communist Party will hold a rally on Sunday partly to respond to “smear campaigns and attacks that have emerged against its leaders” from Naspers. The rally‚ part of the party’s Red October campaign‚ is primarily aimed at “intensifying” its transformation programme‚ the SACP said in a statement on Friday.The campaign wants to achieve “transformation of the financial sector and the media”.The party took aim at media group Naspers‚ which it said was “pushing an embedded media coverage strategy aimed at tarnishing the image of SACP leaders”.“This in the context of the SACP’s resoluteness in advancing the struggle to de-monopolise the media industry and achieve diversity both of ownership and perspective‚” the party said.“This apartheid-style anti-communist media coverage strategy can therefore only be part of a wider political agenda to attack the SACP and its leaders and weaken its transformation efforts.“What else is it aimed at other than maintaining the conditions for capitalist exploitation of the majority albeit this time inviting a few black faces and collaborators on the dinner table to push their subordinate private interests in the name of all black people.“The SACP remains resolute‚ that #NaspersMonopolyMustFall!”..

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