Leon Engelbrecht
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/ 22 May 2006

SACP wades into succession debate

The South African Communist Party (SACP) would not be an absentee participant in the election of a new African National Congress president, the organisation’s deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin said on Sunday. He said the SACP was planning to uphold the values of the liberation struggle in the debate rather than act as a campaign manager for any one personality.

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/ 16 March 2006

Security industry prepares for huge strike

The security industry is preparing for next week’s strike by guards, a company said on Thursday. Chubb Security South Africa, one of the country’s larger security companies, said it has a plan in place to ameliorate the impact of the upcoming industrial action. The strike is expected to start on Thursday and last an indefinite period.

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/ 7 March 2006

SA army unveils vision of future

The SA Army has unveiled a vision for the next 15 years that will require major changes in the way it thinks and fights. The chief of the army, Lieutenant-General Solly Shoke, said in Pretoria on Tuesday that his Vision 2020 would determine the future direction of the army and also influence what equipment it would buy.

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/ 16 February 2006

TAC: Don’t vote for Aids denialists

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has urged the public not to vote for local government election candidates who were inactive in the fight against HIV/Aids. ”If candidates do not support testing for HIV or Aids, don’t vote for them. If candidates don’t support the use of condoms, don’t vote for them,” said TAC chairperson Zackie Achmat.

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/ 30 January 2006

ANC Youth League still loyal to Zuma

The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) on Monday again declared its loyalty to the party’s beleaguered deputy president, Jacob Zuma, and said it opposes ”the creation of two centres of power” in the ANC. League functionaries also briefed the media on an ANCYL national executive committee meeting over the weekend.

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/ 1 December 2005

Cosatu warns new trade-union federation

South Africa has a new ”super trade-union federation”, but the country will have to wait until July to know what it will be called. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) warned the super-federation not to take the short-sighted position of becoming ”a significant rival to Cosatu”.