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st4th Quarter 2013
African Communist
Issue Number 186
MADIBA
A TRIBUTE TO
African Communist
4th Quarter 2013 Issue Number 186
1. 7.
Editorial Notes: Tribute to Madiba Build elements of, capacity for, and momentum towards socialism
Political report to the CC, December 2013
20. What are we to make of the NDP?
SACP discussion document
40. Beyond the developmental state
Ben Fine
55. The evolution of ANC economic policy
Ben Turok
74. Structured to be looted: the systemic underpinnings of corruption
Jeremy Cronin
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AFRICAN COMMUNIST | December 2013
EDITORIAL NOTES
Tribute to Madiba
The SACP salutes South Africa’s greatest son
“…the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love” – Che Guevara
n going to press we learnt of Cde Nelson Mandela’s death. Below are extracts from the eulogy to Madiba by SACP General Secretary, Cde Blade Nzimande. The South African Communist Party joins the millions of the people of South Africa, the majority of whom are the working class and poor, and the billions of the rest of the people the world over, in expressing our sincere condolences to Ms Graca Machel, the entire Mandela family, the ANC and our Alliance on the passing away and loss of what President Jacob Zuma correctly described as South Africa’s greatest son, our hero, a true revolutionary, President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Tata Madiba. We also wish to use this opportunity to express our solidarity with the African National Congress, an organisation that produced him and that he also served with distinction for most of his life, as well as all his Cdes in our broader liberation movement. As Tata Madiba said: “It is not the kings and generals that make history but the masses of the...