SACP message to the Ahmed Kathrada Memorial Service St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town – April 6 2017 Jeremy Cronin SACP first Deputy General Secretary The SACP is proud of cde Kathy’s association with the Communist Party. It was as a 12-year old and as a member of the Young Communist League that cde Kathy first became politically active. Key mentors in his early development were outstanding communists like Dr Yusuf Dadoo, a leader in the Transvaal Indian Congress, and later SACP general secretary. After the unbanning of the SACP in 1990 and after his own release from prison, cde Kathy served on the interim national coordination committee of the SACP. When, months ago, cde Kathy politely advised President Zuma to step down, he did so not because of any personal animosity; not for factional reasons; not (obviously) because he was in the pay of monopoly capital, or part of some bogus imperialist conspiracy. He made the call not because he imagined that the challenges facing the ANC and ...

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