We call for a decisive intervention on the part of the UN and all world leaders to end this carnage that has led into untold famine in Angola. In solidarity with our comrades around the world We send out solidarity greetings to our comrades around the world who continue to be brutally oppressed by military juntas, dictatorships and the capitalist system. These include workers in sweatshops and millions of children employed under horrendous conditions as cheap labour. It includes millions of women forced to accept low wages, poor working conditions and sexual harassment just to survive. Six months down the line, we shall be facing a second round of democratic local government elections.
Local governments are central to development of our society.
For this reason, we must put all our efforts to ensuring that we are ruled by the people we trust and believe in. We do this with clear conscious that similar calls made in the past have helped our people to take the challenges they face. At the same time, we must collectively reflect on the experience of the last five years in order to correct mistakes and build on the foundations laid over the last five years. Our support for the ANC must rest on a concrete programme to ensure local governments fulfill their mandate to provide basic services to those who lacked them historically. The programme must entail measure to transform municipalities in order to ensure participatory democracy and provide services to the people, while creating quality jobs both directly and indirectly.