We have not had much contact with
people in Africa . It would seem that Marxism
has almost disappeared there. So I was very pleased when I came across this communiqué
from the Communist Party of Swaziland. I don’t know the orientation of this
group (Maoist, Trostkyist, general Marxist Leninist, ETC.) That this group is
Marxist at all is a step in the right direction. They need our support and,
unless they are antagonistic towards us, I plan to give it to them from this
site. –SJ Otto
13 March 2020
Communist Party of Swaziland
supports students’ struggles for the right to education and against
victimisation by Mswati autocracy.
The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) supports the struggles
of students in their fight for free, quality education as well as their rights
to freedom of assembly, speech and association. The CPS also supports the
Swaziland National Union of Students and human rights activists in their
decisive activism yesterday, Thursday 12 March 2020, calling for respect of
students’ rights. More students, workers, parents and human rights activists
must join and stand with the students in their struggles.
The students’ demands are: 1) Reversal of the SANU
Senate's decision to expel the SRC President Gubevu Tholumuzi Simelane,
Secretary General Colani Khulekani Maseko, and Sibusiso Nkwanyana; 2) justice
and compensation for Phephile Sifundza who was viciously attacked by police
during a demonstration in 2019; 3) All the SRC members who missed tests,
assignments and examination while on suspension should be given the opportunity
to write them.
The despotic action of the Southern Africa Nazarene
University (SANU) Senate, an agent of the Mswati autocracy, expelling three
student activists for leading peaceful marches during the course of 2019
amounts to victimisation of student activists and suppression of their rights.
The expulsion was preceded by about four months of suspension as well as the
unilateral and arbitrary disbanding of the Student Representative Council by
the SANU Vice-Chancellor.
The CPS calls for decisive action against barbarism and
warns against the right-wing tendencies of the Mswati dictatorship being
executed from below as an experiment of the new forms of aggression of the
Mswati dictatorship and his tinkhundla autocracy. The tinkhundla system has
deepened its iron stranglehold on the people to the level where its various
institutions, including universities, play the role of oppression in the
regime’s resolve to crush any signs of dissent and activism in the country.
This must not be allowed to gain any more ground. The students’ decisive action
in fighting against this tendency is a clear sign of a people's revolt against
the autocratic regime and must be supported by everyone.
Issued by the Communist Party of Swaziland
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Contacts:
Contacts:
Thokozane Kenneth Kunene
General Secretary
(+27)72 594 3971
Or
Pius Vilakati
Information and Publicity
(+27)81 353 3383
Email: cpswa.org@gmail.com
Facebook: Communist Party Of Swaziland – CPS
Twitter: @CPSwaziland
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