Thursday 2 January 2025:-  The South African Communist Party (SACP) will hold the 30^th annual Joe Slovo commemoration on Monday 6 January 2025.

At the time of his death in 1995, Comrade Joe Slovo was the National Chairperson of the SACP. He had previously held the position of SACP General Secretary from 1986 to 1991. He was also the former Chief of Staff of uMkhonto weSizwe, the South African people’s liberation army.

Comrade Joe Slovo was one of the drafters of the Freedom Charter that was adopted in 1955. At the first consultative conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Zambia in 1985, he was elected into the National Executive Committee of the ANC – the first white person to be elected into the ANC’s NEC. He served as the Minister of Housing in the first administration of a democratic South Africa under President Nelson Mandela until his death on 6 January 1995.

Details of the 30^th Joe Slovo Commemoration are as follows:

Date:            6 January 2025

Time:           10h00

Arrival:        09h00

Venue:         Avalon Cemetery, Soweto

Keynote speaker: SACP General Secretary, Comrade Solly Mapaila will deliver the message of the SACP

Alliance partners and the YCLSA will also address the commemoration.

The SACP invites members of the media to cover the Commemoration.

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Founded in 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa.
 
Media, Communications & Information Department | MCID
 
Dr Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo, Central Committee Member
National Spokesperson & Political Bureau Secretary for Policy and Research