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.
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.
President Thabo Mbeki has opened a new museum complex at the University of the Witwatersrand to showcase the origin of mankind and bushman rock art to the public. Mbeki said the opening of the Origins Centre was timely, following soon after the inauguration of the Southern African Large Telescope and the Cradle of Humankind Maropeng Visitor’s Centre.
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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/ 22 February 2006
Africa’s democratic leaders are upbeat about the progress and prospects of the continent. This emerged from the African Leaders’ State of Africa Report 2005, released by former United States ambassador to Tanzania Charles Stith at the University of the Witwatersrand on Wednesday.
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/ 16 February 2006
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
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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/ 27 December 2005
The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has apologised for unintentionally dumping toxic chrome into the Crocodile River near Brits earlier this month. ”The IDC commits itself to cooperating with the authorities to minimise the consequences,” the state development company said.
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/ 1 December 2005
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”.
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/ 21 November 2005
Last week’s discovery of mass graves in Namibia proves once again that truth often is the first casualty of war. In the conflict between the South African Defence Force and the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia, both sides were accomplished in propaganda by 1989.