13th Congress Political Programme of the SACP 2012 - 2017

13thCongresPoliticalProgrameoftheSACP2012-2017
of apartheid oppression, the capitalist economy grew on average between
still dominate our economy, consolidated their power within our society.
White minority rule, the state form associated with CST, has been formally
abolished by the democratic breakthrough of 1994.
constitutional dispensation with white citizens endowed with rights, on
by other forms of stark duality – administrative, economic, social and
spatial. These latter forms of duality, including persisting dualities
within the anatomy of our new democratic state itself, remain deeply
embedded and are continuously reproduced in our present reality.
And this is what has been at stake since our 1994 democratic breakthrough.
At the SACP’s 12 th National Congress in 2007, the Party programme was
dominant in the leadership of both the state and the ANC itself. The SACP
referred to this tendency as the “1996 class project”.
ideological and therefore class features of this reformist tendency, and
movement against it.
It was a tendency that, amongst other things, had abandoned the key
revolutionary concept of Colonialism of a Special Type. The deeply rooted
structural features of our society, shaped by more than a hundred years of
project. This abandonment of one of the key revolutionary concepts of our
struggle which had previously helped to guide our understanding of our reality
tendency of the national democratic revolution itself – and therefore to grave
errors and weaknesses in any attempt at a systematic and transformational
th National Congress in 2007
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