{"id":2073,"date":"2020-08-19T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marxistworkersparty.org.za\/?page_id=2073"},"modified":"2020-09-16T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T09:53:00","slug":"wasp-has-registered-for-the-2014-elections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marxistworkersparty.net\/?page_id=2073","title":{"rendered":"WASP Has Registered for the 2014 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

13 March 2014<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) has registered for the elections to the national assembly and for the provincial legislatures of North West, Limpopo and Gauteng. The national candidate list was made public at a press conference in Johannesburg today, March 13, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weizmann Hamilton, WASP General
Secretary, Outside the IEC Head Offices
Holding the Party’s Deposit Cheque for<\/em><\/strong>
the 2014 Elections<\/em><\/strong>, the Majority <\/em><\/strong>
Fundraised by the Committee for a <\/em><\/strong>
Workers International from Workers <\/em><\/strong>
Around the World<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The presidential candidate and number one on WASP\u2019s national list for the 2014 elections is Moses Mayekiso. Moses was a leading trade union activist in the 1970s and 1980s for the Metal & Allied Workers Union (Mawu) of which he became general secretary. Mawu, along with other unions founded Cosatu in 1985 and Mawu was a key founding union of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa). Moses became the first general secretary of the newly created Numsa, elected from jail for his labour movement activism and anti-apartheid activities. Moses was the hero of an international campaign demanding his release and demonstrations to \u201cfree Comrade Moss\u201d were held in cities around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moses was general secretary of Numsa when the union in 1993 adopted a resolution calling for the formation of a workers\u2019 party. In joining WASP and taking his place in the leadership, Moses is retying the knot of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hamilton Interviewed Outside the IEC Head Offices After Registering WASP for the 2014 Elections<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Moses was the first president of the South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO \u2013 the \u2018fourth\u2019 member of the Tripartite Alliance) and has spent recent years working to re-found that movement on genuine socialist principles as the Congress of South African Non-racial Community Movements (COSANCOM) prompted by the abject failure of SANCO to lead the rising tide of service delivery protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moses was an ANC MP 1994-96 but resigned to focus on the crucial grass-roots work of building SANCO in the aftermath of the fall of apartheid and the urgent task of re-building communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WASP\u2019s list represents and reflects the working class and poor of South Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the candidates on WASP\u2019s lists for the 2014 elections are workers, trade unionists and community and youth activists. The best people to represent the voice of the working class is working class people themselves. WASP rejects the \u2018professionalization\u2019 of politics that takes the view that ordinary people do not have the competence or abilities to assume elected office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leading candidates (speaking at today\u2019s press conference) include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n