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The South African Communist Party (SACP) extends its deepest message of heartfelt condolences to the family of journalist Tshidi Madia.

The SACP also conveys its message of condolences to her colleagues at Eyewitness News, the entire media fraternity as well as all proponents of democratic voices across our country.

Tshidi Madia spent her entire journalistic life probing the quality of our democracy while at the same time inspiring other media personnel and the masses of our country to continuously hold our leaders to account. While the enemies of informative scrutiny opposed her, the masses of our country cherish her bravery to hold even the powerful to account – for the betterment of the people. 

In paying tribute to Tshidi Madia, the SACP reiterates its call for the qualitative transformation of the media in our country, and this includes the conscious dismantling of the media oligopolies which continue to hinder the diversity of views in the media spectrum. The SACP further calls for the building of a genuine people’s media, the majority of whom are working-class and poor. The issues afflicting the masses of our people should always be the centre of all discourse in our media platforms, to replace the current neo-liberal voices in our media spaces with the working-class voice which represents the dominant voice within our population.

The SACP will continue to organise the working class and all those who cherish the value of a truly free media to dismantle the concentration of ownership and control of the means of intellectual production on the few but extremely powerful monopolies dominating information generation and distribution on all media platforms. The Party will continuously fight for the equitable distribution of media resources, development programmes and a deliberate effort to engender a culture of democratic debate and information exchange based on accurate data and fairness.

Issued by South African Communist Party