Workers News - Life in the rural areas

Privatisation is the challenge and we need to campaign strongly against it. We seem to lose sight of the fact that the loyal servants of apartheid are still feeding our elected comrade councillors with false information. These officials hide their incompetence in managing Local Government by proposing that privatisation is the route to alleviate poor services in Local Government. During the apartheid era, Local Government in advantaged areas rendered the best service! What is stopping democracy from rendering the best services now in the disadvantaged areas?We must be vigilant and be prepared to go a little further in providing services to the disadvantaged community. The 30th July agreement at the National Bargaining Council developed guidelines which say that the preferred option to providing services is the public sector. We need as workers to use the guidelines and agreement to our advantage. We must also use SAMWU's Emergency Plan. It is important to read page 11 for more information about this Plan. We need to start implementing our resolution on Socialism to its fullest. We need to actively build the SACP which the congress identified as the main vehicle to achieve our resolution