SACP Press Alert: SACP People’s Red Caravan activation event

[SACP Communications]

South African Communist Party

Press Alert, SACP People’s Red Caravan activation event

Friday 18 June 2025: The South African Communist Party (SACP) invites the media to cover the "SACP Peoples Red Caravan" activation event to be held under the theme, "The People’s Movement for Self-Reliance and Sustainability".

The activation event will officially kick-off the weeklong programme of the SACP which will see the leadership of the Party and its various structures stationed in Matibidi Village in Mpumalanga Province working with the Matibidi community to attend to community challenges while championing development at the local space.  The SACP General Secretary, Solly Mapaila, will lead the activation event.

Details of the Red Caravan activation event will be held as follows:

Date: Monday 21 July 2025
Time: 10h00
Venue: Mashilane Traditional Authority, Matibidi Village, Ward 8, Mpumalanga Province

The People’s Red Caravan is an initiative that will be rolled out nationwide as part of village development. This SACP's all-inclusive programme is aimed at deepening our ties with the people at the community level.  Households and individual community members confront the daily challenges imposed by the capitalist system.

The People's Red Caravan is not an act of charity or external provision. It is a process through which members and leaders of the SACP work in and with communities to collectively address and resolve the problems that the communities experience. It is a practice of building alongside the people, not on their behalf.

Rooted in the pursuit of self-empowerment and self-reliance, the People's Red Caravan initiative rejects disorganising notions of absolute dependency on a "wheelbarrow-like 'delivery' state".

The SACP's work during The People's Red Caravan will focus on several critical areas, including food security, food sovereignty and food production, community safety and security, health, education, arts and culture, recreational activities, initiatives to move towards the realisation of the right to work for all in practice by revitalising community-based productive activities, and infrastructure work – water, sanitation, access roads and other infrastructure. While the Red Caravan initiative will be stationed in each identified community for seven days during its activation phase, the initiatives undertaken will be designed to ensure long-term social mobilisation of our communities into collective developmental efforts and sustainability.

In essence, this is a programme that demonstrates, through practical work, what building socialism from the ground at a local level can look like.