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The South African Communist Party (SACP) conveys its message of heartfelt condolences on the sore loss encountered to the family of Tina Joemat-Pettersson, a former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, as well as Energy.  

When she passed away on Monday, 5 June 2023, Tina Joemat-Pettersson, 59, was the Chair of the National Assembly Portfolio Committee on Police, and a member of the ANC National Executive Committee.  

The SACP also conveys its message of sincere condolences to Parliament, the ANC, and the people of South Africa at large. 

Comrade Tina Joemat-Pettersson was also a member of the SACP and played a crucial role in building the structures of the Party in Northern Cape after unbanning in the early 1990s. 

That was one of the toughest periods in our struggle for liberation, democracy and social emancipation. It was a period during which, through a final push, our national liberation movement with the Alliance at the forefront and buttressed by overwhelming support from our people, achieved the April 1994 democratic breakthrough. 

We will remember Tina Joemat-Pettersson above all else through her contribution in building the revolutionary movement that led the struggle to defeat the apartheid regime and achieve our April 1994 democratic breakthrough.

In memory of her contribution to the just struggle, the Alliance needs to reconfigure itself to move with the times and become stronger at every new moment to resolve the systemic problems of high unemployment, poverty, inequality, crime, gender-based violence, and the electricity under-capacity crisis, all as a matter of urgency.

Issued by The South African Communist Party