‘DA and FF Plus seek to reverse liberation gains,’ says MP Party’s Tony Yengeni at SACP conference

MK Party deputy president Tony Yengeni called for unity among leftist groups and said the DA and FF Plus were working against the progress made since the end of apartheid.

MK Party second deputy president Tony Yengeni has called for unity among leftist groups and accused the DA and FF Plus of protecting colonial-era privilege and trying to reverse the gains of democracy.

He was speaking at the South African Communist Party’s (SACP) Conference of the Left in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni, on Friday.

The three-day conference aims to strengthen coordination, unity in action, political education and organised struggle among leftist and working-class formations, according to the SACP.

Although the ANC confirmed it had been invited to the conference, the party rejected the gathering, saying there was “nothing leftist” about it.