Press Alert: SACP marks its 104th founding anniversary, to hold celebration rally on Sunday, 3 August 2025

Wednesday 30 July 2025: Today, Wednesday, 30 July 2025 marks the 104th founding anniversary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), founded as the Communist Party of South Africa at its inaugural conference held on 30 and 31 July to 1 August 1921 in Cape Town.

The SACP will hold its 104th founding anniversary rally in KwaZulu-Natal Province on Sunday, 3 August 2025.

The SACP invites the media to cover the event.

Solly Mapaila, the SACP General Secretary, will deliver the SACP’s 104th founding anniversary statement.

Representatives of the Alliance partners, the Young Communist League of South Africa and international solidarity organisations will deliver messages of support.

Details of the rally are as follows:

Date: Sunday 3 August 2025
Time: 10h00
Venue: Kwa-Dlengezwa Community Hall, Riot Mkhwanazi District, KwaZulu-Natal

The SACP made an immense contribution to the struggle to end colonialism and apartheid. Rooted among the masses and playing a catalytic role in the struggle against national oppression, the Party was a dependable force in the for liberation and a leading role player in formulating revolutionary theory which served to articulate and document the struggle.

The democratic victory of 1994 is owed, among others, to the valiant efforts communist cadres, acting together with all progressives, to realise majority rule. 

Based on this historic milestone, the SACP continues to make important contributions to build and expand on the hard-won democratic gains  in our country while campaigning for national transformation and development to raise the standards of living of our people, the majority of whom are working class and poor. 

While the SACP welcomes the fact that millions of our people have gained access to human rights and seen improvements in their lives, among others, as a direct fruit of the policies it campaigned for, the Party is deeply worried that the capitalist driven neo-liberal policies continue to hold back progress towards a society that has overcome poverty and inequality. It is fundamentally due to the capitalist system and its neo-liberal policy prescriptions that South Africa has a population of millions of people who are unemployed and millions more who still live under conditions of mass poverty, sky-high inequalities and uneven development.

The struggle continues!

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ISSUED BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY,
FOUNDED IN 1921 AS THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA.