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/ 12 September 2003

Land body survives – just

The National Land Committee (NLC) is still in one piece following a vote last week to decide whether its national office should be dissolved, but it is riven by ideological battles. In a show of solidarity with opponents who claim that the NLC has ”become less rooted in community experience”, three affiliates have left its ranks.

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/ 12 September 2003

‘No more leaders who dream of 4x4s’

At its "watershed" eighth national conference next week, the two million-member Cosatu will launch a programme aimed at putting the working class in the driving seat of the transformation process. A congress document penned explicitly attacks "high-level ANC members" on the right of the party who "side with capital".

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/ 12 September 2003

DA and IFP in advanced foreplay

IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has warned that South Africa is "an embryonic one-party state" and unless voters in 2004 are given an alternative there will be further consolidation of ANC central-government power. The parties appear to be heading towards a formal cooperation pact ahead of the 2004 poll.

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/ 12 September 2003

It’s the spy or the box

A committee tasked with determining whether or not the names of apartheid-era spies be released into the public domain has yet to open 34 boxes of evidence from TRC hearings covering submissions from the ANC and the former apartheid government on spies.