Nationalise Sasol, SACP demands
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PETROCHEMICAL company Sasol must be nationalised or subjected to a supertax on its profits, the SACP said at the end of its four-day national congress yesterday.
The party also resolved that military personnel should be used in developmental projects across the country.
Speaking at the University of Zululand near Empangeni , KwaZulu-Natal, SACP deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin said it cost Sasol R331 to produce the equivalent of a barrel of crude oil, for which the company was paid R826, the going world market oil rate .
The party also wants the government to re-nationalise ArcelorMittal SA, formerly known as Iscor, as suspicions were that the company was being stripped of its assets by its international parent company.
Cronin said the SANDF should also help to build infrastructure and protectcoastlines, instead of the work being outsourced.
He said defence force personnel who were members of the party had claimed that the force remained largely untransformed.
"There is a lack of connection between the developmental objections of the democratic state and the doctrine and policies and practices of the SANDF," he said .
Cronin said the defence force needed to expand its capacity by training and absorbing young people through skills development and employment.
He added the SACP also supported state intervention in the private sector, especially the mining industry.
The resolutions will be refined by the new central committee at its first meeting soon .
SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande said the party also sought "to thrust the communists into protecting the environment".
"Apart from the discussions on the economy, we've added the environment, which is very important. We must, as the communist party, mainstream the struggle to save the environment. The struggle against capitalism is also about how we preserve our planet," Nzimande said.
"Emerging out of this congress is to be in a much better standing to influence society, influence our allies in the interest of addressing the challenges faced by the majority of the people of this country," said Nzimande.
He added that it was difficult to avoid the subject of the ANC's elective conference in Mangaung in December.
"If I leave this hall and take a right turn, it will be said that I am supporting so and so ahead of Mangaung. Even if I cough and if that particular cough sounds right, I support Zuma or something like that," said Nzimande. - Additional reporting Sapa
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Posted 311 days agoMr Blade should rather do what he is paid for, and stop commenting on matters that he he has zero understanding about.
i_stub_born
Posted 311 days ago.........soooo drive environmentally-friendly expensive german limousines.....like me !!...........
MicaParis
Posted 311 days agoAaronGumede
Posted 311 days agofynboslandscapes
Posted 311 days agoLes4uu
Posted 311 days agoTimbuck10
They are CAPITALIST COMMUNISTS...
There is a HUGE difference.... A BMW 7 Series comes to mind.... and a R4m house.... Johnny Blue... Crayfish and Sushi.... etc etc etc...
deebee
Posted 311 days agoBut since the SACP has not shifted ideolocially since the 1922 Miners Strike, it's really not much of a surprise they carry on spouting this mindless drivel.
Maxi
deebee
If you'd like a different example, how about East and West Germany? Again, the one with the open, progressive and dynamic social and economic and political system rose from the ashes of World War 2 to become Europe's largest and most dynamic economy in three decades. East Germany, on the other hand, produced steroid riddled athletes and Trabants. And shot anyone who tried to escape to a better life.
Thuka-Thuka
Posted 311 days agoOh, and now you lot want to nationalise SASOL because it makes money? Fail again.
RSA.MommaCyndi
Posted 311 days agoI completely fail to see why news space is given to a bunch of clowns who have absolutely ZERO mandate from the voting public to make demands.
Zezinho
Posted 311 days agomuk1
Posted 311 days agom1si2zi3nzo4
Posted 311 days agoYet the "professor" has to seek "scientific analysis" from the self-made 'communists', whose probability is no different from ordinary man's dream', enduring no further than his sleep persists. Like all dreams, including those of majority party rule, are brought to crushing halt by daylight, reality of the following day shatters these 'analyses'. Sadly, the vanity must needs be constantly revised, so as to keep the masses guessing, whilst they keep returning the same incompetence to power. To blame these people is like blaming a child, whose hands got hold of a hammer, instead of taking the potential bone-crusher away.
muk1
truthwins
Posted 311 days ago"A communist is someone who reads Marx and Lenin. A Capitalist is someone who actually understands Marx And Lenin".
RSA.MommaCyndi
"If you weren't a communist before the age of 25. you have no heart. If you are a communist sympathiser when you are 30. you have no job"
MicaParis
Communist Hell! In Capitalist Hell they soak you in oil and burn you alive, cut your fingers off with knives, and suffocate you with pillows. In Communist Hell they don't have oil, knives, or pillows.In simple Political philosophic expression Communism is like having two cows where the Government takes them both and provides you with milk!
deebee
I think you mean the government takes both cows away from you and provides you with no milk.
staren
Posted 311 days agoILoveTheTruth
Posted 311 days ago