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SACP must brush up on its relevance By Opinion By Yonela Mlambo For an organisation to reach a centenary is a great milestone, especially for a political party. This is because in a political party there is a contestation of power that has the potential to destabilise the party. Nonetheless, for a political party to reach a centenary is a huge celebration as that symbolises that it was able to entrench intra-party democratic principles, maintain unity, and be able and efficient to manage factions. This year the SACP will be celebrating its centenary. Nonetheless, it is important to appraise t...

This president said, it covers the nuclear but there's a sunset clause of a decade which isn't much when you look at the history of nuclear development but also does not do anything to rein in iran's malign activities, i pointed out, you yourself deed did not vote for the jcpoa because you were worried about future uranium enrichment, why stay in the bad deal? >> i agree with the analysis, the way to fix it, work with europe and partners, strengthen the sanctions against iran on the nonnuclear side, make sure they stay in compliance with the nuclear obligations, they were in compliance with th...

Nuclear but a sunset clause of a decade. does not do anything to rein in iran's malign activities. i point out you yourself did not vote for jcpoa . so why stay in a bad deal? >> i agree with that analysis, the way to fix it, to work with europe, our partners to deal with the nonnuclear vi violatio. make sure they stay in compliance with the nuclear obligations, they were in compliance with. but bottom line, we made -- isolated united states rather than isolating iran, and iran is the bad actor, no question. we don't know what they are going to do. but we need support of our international part...

>> i'm curious, what is the -- i've never understood the argument among those that would you be open for instance if the background check had a sunset clause? like, can we try it for ten years and see what happens and then renegotiate -- >> we did that, remember? >> with the assault rifle weapons ban, that is what was done. what is their case for what they're afraid of with the background check bill? i don't understand the case. >> oh, the case is that they're afraid of the nra. that's very clear. it's certainly not that they're afraid of gun owners because nine out of ten gun owners support b...

To the floor. what we fear is they'll do a watered down version or something that doesn't make a difference. this is something the american people should embrace. i don't agree with president trump on much but if he's willing to embrace universal background checks we should celebrate that. >> let me show you a picture of the gun and the clip that killed all these people. there you see it right there, 100 rounds potentially within 32 seconds, kills nine people that quickly. that kind of gun, should it be available legally to be purchased in the united states? >> absolutely not. and it was illeg...