'On August 12 of every year, we deeply mourn the tragic death of our comrade and personal friend, Smiso Nkwanyana, who passed on in 2003 after an car accident,' write Zet Luzipo and Mfanafuthi Sithebe.
Image:On August 12 of every year, we deeply mourn the tragic death of our comrade and personal friend, Smiso Nkwanyana, who passed on in 2003 after a car accident.Every year when this date of his passing comes, we are reminded of how we remain unrecovered from it, almost two decades down the line. This is because Smiso was no ordinary political leader but a mentor, a support system to many, and a people’s person.
While these actions were nationally spread, KwaZulu-Natal had one of the biggest marches in the history of the party, attended by more than 100,000 ordinary people to submit the memorandum to the Banking Council of SA. These actions saw banks conceding to the review of these anti-poor policies. Today the SACP periodically debates its path to power whether through direct elections or a pact with the ANC, if not through a reconfigured alliance. This discussion originates from what Smiso began to pose as a debate in early 2000s in the central committee and the framework he put in place, with regards to where the party sees itself in the next 10 years from 2001.
Comrade Smiso had an admirable work ethic that attracted all alliance partners in critical moments. At times he was brought into situations to defuse tensions and infighting within alliance components, especially Cosatu-affiliated unions. This may explain his popularity among organised workers across Cosatu unions.
He took lessons from the ANC loss against the IFP during the 1999 elections — a result which went against the popular sentiment that the ANC was going to win. As a deputy elections committee head, he admitted that the IFP had a good rural community strategy, while the ANC had an urban appeal and strategy that didn’t resonate with rural people. He vowed that this was not going to happen in the next elections.
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