SPLM signs cooperation agreement with South Africa’s ANC

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) has signed cooperation agreement with South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) aimed at deepening collaboration between the two liberation movements.

By Benjamin Takpiny

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) has signed cooperation agreement with South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) aimed at deepening collaboration between the two liberation movements.

Peter Lam Both, SPLM Secretary General said that the MOU will deepen the existing relationship with the ANC.

“We are not signing something new but deepening  something we have between ANC and SPLM, our commitment  is to work together for the African continent, we can work together and always defeat our enemy,” Both said during the signing ceremony of the MOU in Juba on Thursday.

  The MOU is a commitment from SPLM and ANC to continue supporting the peace process, and walk the road towards the reconstruction and development of South Sudan and South Africa.

Lam said the relationship with the ANC will help liberate the people of Africa.

He said that nobody can break their bilateral ties with ANC, despite the difficulties they have both been through.

Lam said that ANC and SPLM re both strong parties within their respective countries.

The ANC Secretary General, Cde Fikile Mbalula urged the SPLM to consolidate the discipline in the party, adding that the ANC will always stand by the SPLM party.

He said the oldest liberation movements in Africa have a task of renewing themselves to stay relevant.

 “Our parties have got  to modernize  and adopt and be relevant all the time, if our parties  doesn’t adapt to new methods of organizing and connection with our people, they will die and become history,” Mbalula said.

Mbalula disclosed that the ANC has embraced the spirit of internationalism, adding their struggle is not only for South Africa but for the peoples of the world and Africa as a whole.

David Makhuta, the head of Political Education and Principal of the ANC Political School, said that the signing of the MOU demonstrates the historical relations between the two parties which spans 40 years since the founding of the SPLM.

 “We worked on peace and development, today we are reaffirming in the MOU signed by two secretary generals of the two parties,   we want to work together to bring about peace and development in South Africa and South Sudan, we want to work together to bring transformation and better life on our continent,” he said

 He said that they are going to work together to strengthen the capacity of their organizations to confront challenges.

Makhuta said the two parties will also cooperate on governance, leadership training and capacity building, party discipline, and strengthening the skills of their leadership and members.

Badagbu Daniel, the Secretary for  Culture, Information and Communication and official spokesman of the SPLM party,  said this  MOU is not something new since their relationship with ANC has been on for years.

“We have had about 40 years of relationship with them and today we are deepening this relationship by signing the MOU, this relationship stems way back starting with our founding fathers John Garang and Salva Kiir, We work together to train the cadets, we will be joining their political schools and they will learn from us and we will also learn from them because they have a lot to give out,” Daniel said.

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