The South African Communist Party (SACP) is to hold a ceremony in Soweto near Johannesburg on Wednesday to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the death of struggle stalwart Joe Slovo. The event will be held at the Avolon Cemetery in Soweto at 10 am on Wednesday. It will be preceded by a march from the Regina Mundi Roman Catholic Church in the township‚ beginning an hour earlier.Slovo‚ who was serving as housing minister in the country’s first democratically-elected government at the time of his death on January 6‚ 1995‚ was the National Chairperson as well as a politburo and central committee member of the SACP. He was also a member of the African National Congress National Executive Committee.Together with South Africa's first democratically-elected president Nelson Mandela‚ Slovo was involved in the founding of the joint ANC-SACP liberation army‚ uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)‚ in which he held various positions of responsibility‚ including as MK Chief of Staff.“Slovo was involved in key sites of struggle and participated in strategic centres of power as an activist‚ a leader and an intellectual of note. He was involved in developing the strategy and tactics of our liberation struggle as a whole and the Communist Party's political programme.“Slovo's intellectual work‚ strategic and tactical thinking‚ working in the context of collective leadership‚ spans ‎almost all key documents of our liberation struggle‚ including‚ our very Constitution as a country‚” the SACP said on Sunday.“The SACP will use the commemoration to highlight key tenets of its programme of action for 2016-2017 as well as its posture on important issues‚” the party added...